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	Misc Tournament: Sample Tournament \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: Sample Team \| Judge: Sample Judge OREINTALISM The threat of regional instability is not self-evident but seeped in a racist description of the world – this ideological approach genocide and unending war. Batur 7 [Pinar, PhD @ UT-Austin – Prof. of Scociology @ Vassar, The Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide,” in Handbook of the The Soiology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, eds. Vera and Feagin, p. 441-443] War and genocide are horrid, and taking them for granted is inhuman. In the 21st century, our problem is not only seeing them as natural and inevitable, but even worse: not seeing, not noticing, but ignoring them. Such ” are Iraq and New Orleans. The alternative is to reject the affirmative in favor of a revolutionary pedagogy Sheehi (Associate Professor and Arabic Program Director @ University of South Carolina) 11 (Stephen, The Social Relations of Islamophobia and the Role of The Academic, May 01 2011, http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/TME1/1413/the-social-relations-of-islamophobia-and-the-role-) These revolutions were one more method o f both home and abroad. View their truth claims and evidence with extreme skepticism – Western scholarship on the Arabic world suffers from a myopic focus on short-termism – ensures serial policy failure. Baroud 11 [Ramzy, journalist, author, editor and former Al-Jazeera producer, Ramzy Baroud taught Mass Communication at Australia's Curtin University of Technology, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle. Arab Awakening and Western Media: Time for a New Revolutionary Discourse by Ramzy Baroud / July 28th, 2011 http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/07/arab-awakening-and-western-media-time-for-a-new-revolutionary-discourse/] Western media and think-tanks have long presented a mistaken , and more misguided policies. EU CP Solvency EU democracy assistance solves best – prefer our evidence it’s comparative. Youngs, 01 (Richard, Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for International Relations, DEMOCRACY PROMOTION: THE CASE OF EUROPEAN UNION STRATEGY. CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES WORKING DOCUMENT NO. 167. www.ceps.eu/ceps/download/759)ZDM The foregoing account demonstrates that the EU has established a significant presence the efficiency of policy delivery. China Bashing China bashing is coming via revaluation talk – congressional action inflames relations and guts the economy Palmer 8-11 Doug Palmer, Aug 11, 2011 “Wider trade gap could propel China currency bill,” Reuters, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/11/us-china-usa-trade-idUSTRE77A5N220110811 Just before Congress adjourned f another matter," he said. The plan costs political capital Stephens 11 Philip Stephens Associate Editor of the Financial Times May 19, 2011 “A choice of minefields for Obama” Financial Times, Lexis The speeches - the latest on t But we have been here before. Political capital is key to blocking pushes for currency revaluation Palmer 9-2 Doug Palmer, Journalist, “Analysis: Obama's trade legacy in a crucible this fall,” Reuters, Sep 2, 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/02/us-usa-obama-trade-idUSTRE7814CZ20110902 Democrats like House Minority Leader capital to block it. China bashing starts the mother of all trade wars undermining global growth Carmosky 9-8 Janet Carmosky, Contributor 9/08/2011 “China Bashing Season Officially Kicks Off” Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetcarmosky/2011/09/08/china-bashing-season-officially-kicks-off/ In the past 24 hours (that isn’t us) be worth it? Chinese trade conflicts is the most likely scenario for military conflict. Landy 7 Ben Landy, Director of Research and Strategy at the Atlantic Media Company, publisher of the Atlantic Monthly, National Journal, and Government Executive magazines, April 3, 2007, http://chinaredux.com/2007/04/03/protectionism-and-war/#comments,) The greatest threat for the far more than increases in military budgets and anti-satellite tests. Extinction Strait Times 2K [“No one gains in war over Taiwan,” June 25 2000, L/N] THE high-intensity scenario postulates a cross-strait war it cannot be ruled out entirely, for China puts sovereignty above everything else. Spending A. Moody’s and Fitch will maintain the triple A rating in the status quo – but loss of fiscal discipline will trigger a downgrade Bloomberg 8/2/11, “U.S. Credit Rating Affirmed as Moody’s, Fitch Warn of Downgrade on Deficit Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings is maintained in 2012 B. The plan reverses foreign aid cuts that are key to fiscal discipline – everything must be on the chopping block Huffington Post 11 Huffington Post 4/13/11, “Budget Cuts In Deal Hit Defense Spending, Foreign Aid,” Budget Cuts In Deal Hit Defense Spending, Foreign Aid WASHINGTON The negotiators agreed to cuts in the millions for international banks, the U.N. Population Fund and international narcotics control and law enforcement programs. C. We’re at the limit – any more spending will push us below a triple A rating Miami Herald 11 Miami Herald 8/16/11, “Fitch Ratings keeps US at AAA rating,” http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/16/2361415/fitch-ratings-keeps-us-at-top.html Fitch noted the rising proportion of U.S. d rating, it said D. Further downgrades lead to a global economic crisis Goldwein 11 Marc Goldwein, senior policy analyst for the fiscal policy program at the New America Foundation and former Associate Director of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (also known as the Bowles-Simpson Commission), 8/11/11, “Drawing a AAA-Road Map for Post-Downgrade America,” The Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/08/drawing-a-aaa-road-map-for-post-downgrade-america/243463/ ... Okay, Panic a Little If rating downgrades available to bail out the U.S. government. E. Economic collapse causes global nuclear war. Merlini, Senior Fellow – Brookings, 11 [Cesare Merlini, nonresident senior fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute for International Affairs (IAI) in Rome. He served as IAI president from 1979 to 2001. Until 2009, he also occupied the position of executive vice chairman of the Council for the United States and Italy, which he co-founded in 1983. His areas of expertise include transatlantic relations, European integration and nuclear non-proliferation, with particular focus on nuclear science and technology. A Post-Secular World? DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2011.571015 Article Requests: Order Reprints : Request Permissions Published in: journal Survival, Volume 53, Issue 2 April 2011 , pages 117 - 130 Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year Download PDF Download PDF (~357 KB) View Related Articles To cite this Article: Merlini, Cesare 'A Post-Secular World?', Survival, 53:2, 117 – 130] Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future of the with secular absolutes such as unbridled nationalism. Iran DA SHELL A. The plan threatens Iran’s regional status 1 Iran perceives US democracy assistance as soft warfare Allen 11 Michael Allen, editor Democracy Digest May 17, 2011 Regime insecurity drives Iran’s repression and ‘soft war’ obsessions, says new report http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/05/regime-insecurity-drives-irans-repression-and-soft-war-obsessions-says-new-report/ The Islamic Republic’s obsession .... Donilon, President Obama’s National Security Adviser. 2. Yemen is important to Iran’s regional position Barzegar 11 Kayhan Barzegar, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School April 20, 2011 Current Affiliation: Faculty Member, Department of International Relations, Science and Research University, Tehran, Iran Former Associate, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, 2010–2011; Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/international Security Program, 2007–2010 "Iran's Interests and Values and the 'Arab Spring'" http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/20954/irans_interests_and_values_and_the_arab_spring.html The developments in... and negotiated solutions. 3. Iran perceives stable democracy as undercutting its regional strategy Parsi 10 Trita Parsi, founder and president of the National Iranian American Council and Reza Marashi, research director for the National Iranian Council and Previous served in the U.S. State Department in the Office of Iranian Affairs Nov 4, 2010 Cairo Review of Global Affairs - American University in Cairo Arab Spring Seen From Tehran http://www.aucegypt.edu/gapp/cairoreview/pages/articleDetails.aspx?aid=62 While Iran has longed ...arguably the most likely scenario. B. Iran’s loss of regional status will cause war 1, Iran will miscalculate under the pressure of being regionally contained Barry Rubin is Director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center and Editor of The Middle East Review of International Affairs August 2010 “The Right Kind of Containment “ Foreign Affairs lexis The second flawed assumption ...a shaky foundation. 2. The result is extinction Chossudovsky 5 Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalisation 1 May 2005 Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO505A.html The Bush Administration has ...US-Israeli air strikes. Ban Impacts CP The United States federal government should create a policy to not pre-emptively attack Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela or Cuba. Solves their first advantage- prevents the impact EU CP--DONKEY FUNDING Text: The European Union should cut all funding for Asino the blogging donkey and provide civil military support element throughout Yemen to provide local governance assistance. EU Solves security sector reform. De Vasconcelos et al March 11 (Alberto, Director of the EU Institute for Security Studies, The Arab democratic wave How the EU can seize the moment European Union Institute for Security Studies, http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/The_Arab_Democratic_Wave_-_how_the_EU_can_seize_the_moment.pdf.)ZDM 6. Security sector reform. A crisis of confidence now exists between Egyptian society on the one hand...following which financial • aid will be given. Click the "edit" link at the top to edit all your entries. Click the pencil to the right to edit an individual entry. Click the Red X to delete this sample entry. Use the button to Add an Entry. Use the second box for cites formatted with wiki syntax or plain text, such as that exported from Verbatim 4.	10/26/11
0	Round Reports Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Neg: Dartmouth AD Round #5 Tournament: Shirley Vs Team: Harvard KT Judge: Mulholland Off Case Args: T – Democracy Assistance, Substantial (one violation) Security/Anti-Basing K Payroll Tax Politics DA EU CP Saudi DA Case Args: Case Defense Block Strategy: K T – DA, Substantial 2nr Strategy: T – Democracy Assistance Neg: Dartmouth AD Round #4 Tournament: Wake Vs Team: Texas LM Judge: Jason Reignier Off Case Args: T – DA is not Economic Assistance Neolib K Occular Centrism K Case Args: Block Strategy: T, Neolib 2nr Strategy: Neg: Dartmouth AD Round #2 Tournament: Shirley Vs Team: Northwestern BM Judge: Dave Arnett Off Case Args: ASPEC EU CP Security K Payroll Tax Cuts DA China Relations DA Case Args: Stability Libya stabilizing now Alt causes Militias prevent solvency Aid isn’t effective - culture No impact to Libyan collapse Lendman is a hack Solvency Can’t solve transparency NTCs legitimacy depends on distancing itself from U.S. Credibility Alt causes to credibility U.S. leadership in ME already lost – can’t regain it Libya irrelevant for cred No Middle East cred or influence Heg sustainable – hard power Heg doesn’t solve conflict Terror No safe haven for Al-Qaeda No impact – can’t launch Libya irrelevant – rest of ME already radicalizing No nuclear Al-Qaeda No impact to bioterror Block Strategy: 2NC EU CP Solvency Stability Credibility Terror 1NR Politics DA 2nr Strategy: Conditionality is a reason to reject the argument, not the team Politics DA Case	11/11/11
	T - Can't be Development Assistance Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Cards round 4 1NC T ECON –DEVELOPMENT AID not democracy assistance SHELL Not democracy assistance A. democracy assistance is assistance where the primary purpose is to assist democracy not the secondary purpose Lappin 10. Richard Lappin, Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies, University of Leuven (Belgium); has participated in over a dozen democracy assistane missions for the UN, EU, OSCE, and Carter Center and has recently completed assignments in Sierra Leone, Lebanon, and Romania, Currentlym visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Belgrade, 2010 Central European Journal of International and Security Studies, Vol 4, Issue 1 What We Talk ABout When We Talk ABout Democracy Assistance: The Problem of Definition in Post-Conflict Approaches to Democratisation, http://www.cejiss.org/issue/2010-volume-4-issue-1/lappin Furthermore, as democracy has …post-conflict democracy assistance can be drawn. B. the plan violates ________ does not directly act directly on democratization. Democracy is not the primary purpose of the pla, The best indication of this is that it would be equally useful in an authoritarian state. At best, it promotes democracy only by effects, and that unlimits. Burnell 2K Peter Burnell, prof of politics, Univ of Warwick UK 2000 Democracy Assistance: international cooperation for democratization, Peter Burnell ed p 11-12 In the largest … the literature provides conflicting answers to questions such as these. c. increase means to make greater in size d. The aff interpretation is bad for debate 1. Limits – limits are necessary for negative preparation and clash. They’re unlimiting because they make assistance to anyone civil society. Only be restricting the aff to agents of democracy can the negative ever hope to be prepared. 2. Ground – they kill core negative ground on democracy e. This is a voter because T is necessary for debate (for clash etc to be possible) Precision demands that you hold the line and carefully distinguish between governance and “democracy assistance” --- their arguments WRONGLY LABEL the plan as topical --- causing conceptual confusion- this turns their SUBSTANCE standard Burnell 8 (Peter, Professor of Politics and International Studies – University of Warwick, “From Evaluating Democracy Assistance to Appraising Democracy Promotion”, Political Studies, 56(2), June, Wiley) All things considered, the …. The dividing line with governance projects is especially confused. Limits outweigh – they’re the vital access point for any theory impact --- it’s key to fairness --- huge research burdens mean we can’t prepare to compete – and its key to education --- big topics cause hyper-generics, lack of clash, and shallow debate --- and it destroys participation Rowland 84 (Robert C., Debate Coach – Baylor University, “Topic Selection in Debate”, American Forensics in Perspective, Ed. Parson, p. 53-54) The first major problem … of broad topics that has led some small schools to cancel their programs. Perperation and agreement on a point of stasis are key to debates- otherwise discussions are meaningless- this proves limits key Shiveley 2K Ruth Lessl Shively, Assistant Prof Political Science – Texas A&M U., 2000 [Partisan Politics and Political Theory, p. 181-2] The requirements given thus … it. In other words, contestation rests on some basic agreement or harmony. Don’t be fooled --- “democracy assistance” and governance DO have substantial overlap, but ARE still distinct. The difference is political vs. economic focus Santiso 1 (Carlos, Ph.D. Candidate – Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, “International Cooperation for Democracy and Good Governance: Moving Toward a Second Generation?”, European Journal of Development Research, 13(1), June, http://www.eldis.org/fulltext/secondgeneration.pdf) There are many conceptual and … differ not so much in substance, but in emphasis.	11/13/11

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Misc
- Tournament: Sample Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Sample Team | Judge: Sample Judge
- OREINTALISM
  The threat of regional instability is not self-evident but seeped in a racist description of the world – this ideological approach genocide and unending war.
  Batur 7 [Pinar, PhD @ UT-Austin – Prof. of Scociology @ Vassar, The Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide,” in Handbook of the The Soiology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, eds. Vera and Feagin, p. 441-443]
  
  War and genocide are horrid, and taking them for granted is inhuman. In the 21st century, our problem is not only seeing them as natural and inevitable, but even worse: not seeing, not noticing, but ignoring them. Such
  ” are Iraq and New Orleans.
  
  The alternative is to reject the affirmative in favor of a revolutionary pedagogy
  Sheehi (Associate Professor and Arabic Program Director @ University of South Carolina) 11
  (Stephen, The Social Relations of Islamophobia and the Role of The Academic, May 01 2011, http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/TME1/1413/the-social-relations-of-islamophobia-and-the-role-)
  
  These revolutions were one more method o
  f
  both home and abroad.
  
  View their truth claims and evidence with extreme skepticism – Western scholarship on the Arabic world suffers from a myopic focus on short-termism – ensures serial policy failure.
  Baroud 11 [Ramzy, journalist, author, editor and former Al-Jazeera producer, Ramzy Baroud taught Mass Communication at Australia's Curtin University of Technology, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle. Arab Awakening and Western Media: Time for a New Revolutionary Discourse by Ramzy Baroud / July 28th, 2011 http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/07/arab-awakening-and-western-media-time-for-a-new-revolutionary-discourse/]
  Western media and think-tanks have long presented a mistaken
  , and more misguided policies.
  
  EU CP Solvency
  
  EU democracy assistance solves best – prefer our evidence it’s comparative.
  Youngs, 01 (Richard, Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for International Relations, DEMOCRACY PROMOTION: THE CASE OF EUROPEAN UNION STRATEGY. CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES WORKING DOCUMENT NO. 167. www.ceps.eu/ceps/download/759)ZDM
  The foregoing account demonstrates that the EU has established a significant presence
  the efficiency of policy delivery.
  
  China Bashing
  
  China bashing is coming via revaluation talk – congressional action inflames relations and guts the economy
  Palmer 8-11
  Doug Palmer, Aug 11, 2011 “Wider trade gap could propel China currency bill,” Reuters, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/11/us-china-usa-trade-idUSTRE77A5N220110811
  Just before Congress adjourned f
  another matter," he said.
  
  The plan costs political capital
  Stephens 11
  Philip Stephens Associate Editor of the Financial Times May 19, 2011 “A choice of minefields for Obama” Financial Times, Lexis
  The speeches - the latest on t
  But we have been here before.
  
  Political capital is key to blocking pushes for currency revaluation
  Palmer 9-2
  Doug Palmer, Journalist, “Analysis: Obama's trade legacy in a crucible this fall,” Reuters, Sep 2, 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/02/us-usa-obama-trade-idUSTRE7814CZ20110902
  Democrats like House Minority Leader
  capital to block it.
  China bashing starts the mother of all trade wars undermining global growth
  Carmosky 9-8
  Janet Carmosky, Contributor 9/08/2011 “China Bashing Season Officially Kicks Off” Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetcarmosky/2011/09/08/china-bashing-season-officially-kicks-off/
  In the past 24 hours
  (that isn’t us) be worth it?
  
  Chinese trade conflicts is the most likely scenario for military conflict.
  Landy 7
  Ben Landy, Director of Research and Strategy at the Atlantic Media Company, publisher of the Atlantic Monthly, National Journal, and Government Executive magazines, April 3, 2007, http://chinaredux.com/2007/04/03/protectionism-and-war/#comments,)
  The greatest threat for the
  far more than increases in military budgets and anti-satellite tests.
  
  Extinction
  Strait Times 2K
  [“No one gains in war over Taiwan,” June 25 2000, L/N]
  THE high-intensity scenario postulates a cross-strait war
  it cannot be ruled out entirely, for China puts sovereignty above everything else.
  Spending
  A. Moody’s and Fitch will maintain the triple A rating in the status quo – but loss of fiscal discipline will trigger a downgrade
  Bloomberg 8/2/11, “U.S. Credit Rating Affirmed as Moody’s, Fitch Warn of Downgrade on Deficit
  Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings
  is maintained in 2012
  
  B. The plan reverses foreign aid cuts that are key to fiscal discipline – everything must be on the chopping block
  Huffington Post 11
  Huffington Post 4/13/11, “Budget Cuts In Deal Hit Defense Spending, Foreign Aid,”
  Budget Cuts In Deal Hit Defense Spending, Foreign Aid WASHINGTON
  The negotiators agreed to cuts in the millions for international banks, the U.N. Population Fund and international narcotics control and law enforcement programs.
  
  C. We’re at the limit – any more spending will push us below a triple A rating
  Miami Herald 11
  Miami Herald 8/16/11, “Fitch Ratings keeps US at AAA rating,” http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/16/2361415/fitch-ratings-keeps-us-at-top.html
  Fitch noted the rising proportion of U.S. d
  rating, it said
  D. Further downgrades lead to a global economic crisis
  Goldwein 11
  Marc Goldwein, senior policy analyst for the fiscal policy program at the New America Foundation and former Associate Director of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (also known as the Bowles-Simpson Commission), 8/11/11, “Drawing a AAA-Road Map for Post-Downgrade America,” The Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/08/drawing-a-aaa-road-map-for-post-downgrade-america/243463/
  ... Okay, Panic a Little If rating downgrades
  available to bail out the U.S. government.
  
  E. Economic collapse causes global nuclear war.
  Merlini, Senior Fellow – Brookings, 11
  [Cesare Merlini, nonresident senior fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute for International Affairs (IAI) in Rome. He served as IAI president from 1979 to 2001. Until 2009, he also occupied the position of executive vice chairman of the Council for the United States and Italy, which he co-founded in 1983. His areas of expertise include transatlantic relations, European integration and nuclear non-proliferation, with particular focus on nuclear science and technology. A Post-Secular World? DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2011.571015 Article Requests: Order Reprints : Request Permissions Published in: journal Survival, Volume 53, Issue 2 April 2011 , pages 117 - 130 Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year Download PDF Download PDF (~357 KB)     View Related Articles To cite this Article: Merlini, Cesare 'A Post-Secular World?', Survival, 53:2, 117 – 130]
  Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future of the
  with secular absolutes such as unbridled nationalism.
  Iran DA SHELL
  
  A. The plan threatens Iran’s regional status
  
  1 Iran perceives US democracy assistance as soft warfare
  
  Allen 11 Michael Allen, editor Democracy Digest May 17, 2011   Regime insecurity drives Iran’s repression and ‘soft war’ obsessions, says new report      http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/05/regime-insecurity-drives-irans-repression-and-soft-war-obsessions-says-new-report/
  The Islamic Republic’s obsession .... Donilon, President Obama’s National Security Adviser.
  
  2. Yemen is important to Iran’s regional position
  
  Barzegar 11 Kayhan Barzegar, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School April 20, 2011
  Current Affiliation: Faculty Member, Department of International Relations, Science and Research University, Tehran, Iran
  Former Associate, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, 2010–2011; Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/international Security Program, 2007–2010        "Iran's Interests and Values and the 'Arab Spring'"
  http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/20954/irans_interests_and_values_and_the_arab_spring.html
  The developments in... and negotiated solutions.
  
  3. Iran perceives stable democracy as undercutting its regional strategy
  
  Parsi 10   Trita Parsi, founder and president of the National Iranian American Council and Reza Marashi, research director for the National Iranian Council and Previous served in the U.S. State Department in the Office of Iranian Affairs Nov 4, 2010
  Cairo Review of Global Affairs - American University in Cairo   Arab Spring Seen From Tehran    http://www.aucegypt.edu/gapp/cairoreview/pages/articleDetails.aspx?aid=62
  While Iran has longed ...arguably the most likely scenario.
  
  B. Iran’s loss of regional status will cause war
  
  1, Iran will miscalculate under the pressure of being regionally contained
  
  Barry Rubin is Director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center and Editor of The Middle East Review of International Affairs August 2010 “The Right Kind of Containment “ Foreign Affairs lexis
  The second flawed assumption ...a shaky foundation.
  
  2. The result is extinction
  
  Chossudovsky 5 Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalisation    1 May 2005   Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran
  http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO505A.html
  The Bush Administration has ...US-Israeli air strikes.
  Ban Impacts CP
  The United States federal government should create a policy to not pre-emptively attack Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela or Cuba.
  
  Solves their first advantage- prevents the impact
  EU CP--DONKEY FUNDING
  
  Text: The European Union should cut all funding for Asino the blogging donkey and provide civil military support element throughout Yemen to provide local governance assistance.
  
  EU Solves security sector reform.
  De Vasconcelos et al March 11 (Alberto, Director of the EU Institute for Security Studies, The Arab democratic wave How the EU can seize the moment European Union Institute for Security Studies, http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/The_Arab_Democratic_Wave_-_how_the_EU_can_seize_the_moment.pdf.)ZDM
  
  6. Security sector reform. A crisis of confidence now exists between Egyptian society on the one hand...following which financial • aid will be given.
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Round Reports
- Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
- Neg: Dartmouth AD
  Round #5 Tournament: Shirley
  Vs Team: Harvard KT
  Judge: Mulholland
  
  Off Case Args:
  T – Democracy Assistance, Substantial (one violation)
  Security/Anti-Basing K
  Payroll Tax Politics DA
  EU CP
  Saudi DA
  
  Case Args:
  Case Defense
  
  Block Strategy:
  K
  T – DA, Substantial
  
  2nr Strategy:
  T – Democracy Assistance
  Neg: Dartmouth AD
  Round #4 Tournament: Wake
  Vs Team: Texas LM
  Judge: Jason Reignier
  
  Off Case Args:
  T – DA is not Economic Assistance
  Neolib K
  Occular Centrism K
  
  Case Args:
  
  Block Strategy:
  T, Neolib
  
  2nr Strategy:
  
  Neg: Dartmouth AD
  Round #2 Tournament: Shirley
  Vs Team: Northwestern BM
  Judge: Dave Arnett
  
  Off Case Args:
  ASPEC
  EU CP
  Security K
  Payroll Tax Cuts DA
  China Relations DA
  
  Case Args:
  Stability
              Libya stabilizing now
              Alt causes
              Militias prevent solvency
              Aid isn’t effective - culture
              No impact to Libyan collapse
              Lendman is a hack
  Solvency
              Can’t solve transparency
              NTCs legitimacy depends on distancing itself from U.S.
  Credibility
              Alt causes to credibility
              U.S. leadership in ME already lost – can’t regain it
              Libya irrelevant for cred
              No Middle East cred or influence
              Heg sustainable – hard power
              Heg doesn’t solve conflict
  Terror
              No safe haven for Al-Qaeda
              No impact – can’t launch
              Libya irrelevant – rest of ME already radicalizing
              No nuclear Al-Qaeda
              No impact to bioterror
  
  Block Strategy:
  2NC
              EU CP
              Solvency
              Stability
              Credibility
              Terror
  1NR
              Politics DA
  
  2nr Strategy:
  Conditionality is a reason to reject the argument, not the team
  Politics DA
  Case

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T - Can't be Development Assistance
- Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
- Cards round 4
  
  1NC T
  ECON –DEVELOPMENT AID not democracy assistance SHELL
  
  Not democracy assistance
  
  A. democracy assistance is assistance where the primary purpose is to assist democracy not the secondary purpose
  Lappin 10. Richard Lappin, Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies, University of Leuven (Belgium); has participated in over a dozen democracy assistane missions for the UN, EU, OSCE, and Carter Center and has recently completed assignments in Sierra Leone, Lebanon, and Romania, Currentlym visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Belgrade,                      2010 Central European Journal of International and Security Studies, Vol 4, Issue 1 What We Talk ABout When We Talk ABout Democracy Assistance: The Problem of Definition in Post-Conflict Approaches to Democratisation,
  http://www.cejiss.org/issue/2010-volume-4-issue-1/lappin
  Furthermore, as democracy has …post-conflict democracy assistance can be drawn.
  
  B. the plan violates
  
  ________ does not directly act directly on democratization. Democracy is not the primary purpose of the pla,   The best indication of this is that it would be equally useful in an authoritarian state. At best, it promotes democracy only by effects, and that unlimits.
  
  Burnell 2K   Peter Burnell, prof of politics, Univ of Warwick UK   2000
  Democracy Assistance: international cooperation for democratization, Peter Burnell ed   p 11-12
  In the largest … the literature provides conflicting answers to questions such as these.
  
  c. increase means to make greater in size
  
  d. The aff interpretation is bad for debate
  
  1. Limits – limits are necessary for negative preparation and clash.   They’re unlimiting because they make assistance to anyone civil society. Only be restricting the aff to agents of democracy can the negative ever hope to be prepared.
  
  2. Ground – they kill core negative ground on democracy
  
  e. This is a voter because T is necessary for debate (for clash etc to be possible)
  
  Precision demands that you hold the line and carefully distinguish between governance and “democracy assistance” --- their arguments WRONGLY LABEL the plan as topical --- causing conceptual confusion- this turns their SUBSTANCE standard
  Burnell 8 (Peter, Professor of Politics and International Studies – University of Warwick, “From Evaluating Democracy Assistance to Appraising Democracy Promotion”, Political Studies, 56(2), June, Wiley)
  
  All things considered, the …. The dividing line with governance projects is especially confused.
  
  Limits outweigh – they’re the vital access point for any theory impact --- it’s key to fairness --- huge research burdens mean we can’t prepare to compete – and its key to education --- big topics cause hyper-generics, lack of clash, and shallow debate --- and it destroys participation
  Rowland 84 (Robert C., Debate Coach – Baylor University, “Topic Selection in Debate”, American Forensics in Perspective, Ed. Parson, p. 53-54)
  The first major problem … of broad topics that has led some small schools to cancel their programs.
  
  Perperation and agreement on a point of stasis are key to debates- otherwise discussions are meaningless- this proves limits key
  
  Shiveley 2K
  Ruth Lessl Shively, Assistant Prof Political Science – Texas A&M U., 2000
  [Partisan Politics and Political Theory, p. 181-2]
  The requirements given thus … it. In other words, contestation rests on some basic agreement or harmony.
  
  Don’t be fooled --- “democracy assistance” and governance DO have substantial overlap, but ARE still distinct. The difference is political vs. economic focus
  Santiso 1 (Carlos, Ph.D. Candidate – Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, “International Cooperation for Democracy and Good Governance: Moving Toward a Second Generation?”, European Journal of Development Research, 13(1), June, http://www.eldis.org/fulltext/secondgeneration.pdf)
  
  There are many conceptual and … differ not so much in substance, but in emphasis.

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