2010-2011 NCFCA Team Policy resolution

The NCFCA Team Policy resolution for the 2010-2011 season was Resolved: That the United States Federal Government should significantly reform its policy towards Russia.

Common cases
Popular case topics from the 2010-2011 NCFCA resolution included:


 * New START: The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, is a treaty between the United States and Russia that intends to improve accountability concerning nuclear weapons and related material. Early on in the season, a popular case was to ratify the New START treaty; however, the New START treaty was ratified by the US on December 22, 2010, making the case non-inherent. Subsequently, some teams ran cases that withdrew from the New START treaty.


 * Jackson-Vanik: The Jackson-Vanik Amendment creates a special tariff that is applied to nations when they do not comply with certain human rights standards, originally focusing on emigration. The tariff had been repeatedly waived for Russia, but they had not been graduated from the amendment altogether. A popular case involved graduating Russia from the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, on the grounds that it was harming US-Russia relations and/or breaking promises.


 * NATO Expansion: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an organization that opposed the USSR (Soviet Union/Russia) during the Cold War. Russia has strongly objected to expanding NATO further, especially into states that were formerly in the USSR. One case, which was popular in some regions, argued that the U.S. should use its veto power to halt NATO expansion. (Because NATO operates by consensus, it cannot be expanded further unless every nation consents.)