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Food Aid Shell (1 of 2)

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First, newest budget cuts threaten food aid, putting millions of lives at risk

William Lambers August 15 2011 {author of "Ending World Hunger: School Lunches for Kids Around the World."} Ending World Hunger “Congress: Food Aid Budget Cuts a Disaster” http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/congress-food-aid-budget-cuts-a/ /AP

Congress is fiercely debating budget cuts to save
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policy now tragically being forged by our representatives.
 

And, funding foreign aid ensures trade-offs in other areas like food security

AFP 2/11/2011 “Foreign aid cuts would be 'devastating:' Clinton,” d/l: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iszRIEucrNF2YQ_VZVxxRZAFuiog?docId=CNG.ebeff272fc0b04d38c80f83bba916cbc.711 jl

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned
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, with savings of under one million dollars.

Food Aid Shell (2 of 2)

Sadly, plan ensures trade-off since democracy assistance is expensive, and actually weakens the possibility for democracy

Shumbana Karume 2003 [ FIRST LADY OF ZANZIBAR AND CHAIRPERSON OF ZAYEDESA, AN NGO BASED IN ZANZIBAR] “SUMMARY PAPER ON DEMOCRATIC ASSISTANCE,” d/l: http://www.eisa.org.za/PDF/SADC%20INSIGHT%201.pdf jl

There are many more arguments that demonstrate why

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of democratic assistance on electoral democracy in SADC.

Ultimately, cutting food aid is the greatest threat to world peace

William Lambers February 18 2011 {Global Hunger Examiner} “Congress Shows Poor Judgment with Food Aid Cuts” http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/219493///AP

The Washington Post's story, "House budget

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sink American foreign policy by cutting food aid.

1NC—Shell/generic S! Card

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TEXT: The European Union should (do the plan)

Solvency:

The role of the US is over in MENA, especially as issues of democracy begin to arise.  European multilateralism and non-Military intervention is preferable because it foregrounds unification and multilateralism.

Whitehead 10

Laurence, Official Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, International Dimensions of Political Change in the MENA Region, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Volume 6, No. 1: 1-23

The EU is a legal economic and political

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destructive tendency toward a “clash of civilizations.”

1NC—Net Benefit

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EU democratic policy towards MENA is critical to establishing EU soft power and maintenance of security

Panebianco 10

Stefania, University of Catania, “The EU and the Middle East”, in The Foreign Policy of the European Union, edited by Federiga Bindi guy

It would be a mistake to assume that

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interests” and “values,” the EU defends the former.

1NC Shell—Soft Power Zero Sum/mpact

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The EU’s emergent multilateral soft power is zero sum with the US and checks against US hard power
 Telo 6
 Mario, Jean Monnet Honorary Chair of International relations and European political integration at the Brussels Free University , Europe: a Civilian Power, 2006, pg.

The existence of EU civilian and multilateral

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dimen- sions of the EU’s foreign policy.

Only EU leadership creates a global, multipolar model necessary to solve global peace and prosperity

Jessica L. Hawkinson 8 Thesis in Int'l Studies @ Macalester "ESTABLISHING  MULTICULTURAL INTERDEPENDENCE IN EUROPE" http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=intlstudies_honors

Placing European developments within a context of globalization

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morality, global cooperation, and perpetual pea