The ten arguments you’ll hear most on the regime change topic, with frontlines for each and crossfire questions that set up your summary.
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The ten arguments you’ll hear most on the regime change topic, with frontlines for each and crossfire questions that set up your summary.
Why normal cost-benefit weighing breaks on the regime change topic, and how to weigh principle against consequences, certainty against magnitude, and a single success against a record of failure.
How to write a Con case that beats a bounded Pro principle: structural arguments about why regime change fails, the precedent problem, and why the United States in particular can’t be trusted with the principle.
How to write a Pro case that survives the historical record: grounding justification in just-war criteria, choosing your limiting cases, and getting ahead of the "who decides" objection.
A word-by-word guide to "The United States is justified in using force to remove authoritarian leaders from power": what each term commits Pro and Con to, and which definition fights are worth having.