Next Off: EU CP
EU has unique expertise at promoting democracy from recently transitioned states.
Jacek Kucharczyk (Research Director at the Institute of Public Affairs, PhD in Sociology from the Institute
of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy
Re-energising Europe to Champion Democracy” 2008
But if the Visegrad Four are to emerge
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that comes with democratic development in other countries.

The EU ought [plan text]

Next Off: SA DA
Uniqueness.
Even with Arab Spring tensions US-Saudi Arabia relations remain high
Christopher Boucek, U.S.-Saudi
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and stability issues in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
Tensions between the United States and Saudi Arabia
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Riyadh will damage Washington’s interests in the region.
In a Q&A, Christopher Boucek
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with Saudi Arabia on areas of mutual interest.
B. Link.
U.S. democracy assistance crushes U.S. Saudi relations
Vali Nasr , Bloomberg News, May 23, 2011, (Will the Saudis Kill the Arab Spring?‖ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-23/will-the-saudis-kill-the-arab-spring-.html) PM
In his speech last week on the Middle
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. on a collision course with Saudi Arabia.
The kingdom has emerged as the leader of
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U.S. in the Middle East.
Saudi rulers have made clear that they find
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special bond with Riyadh (read: oil).
The Saudi threat is intended to present U
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and loses the rest of the Middle East.
C. Impact. 

1. Weakening US-Saudi relations forces Saudi nuclearization
   Jason Burke correspondent for The Guardian, Saudi
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   A Saudi bomb?
   Julian Borger
   Diplomatic editor
   In the short term, Saudi Arabia could
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   , in return for financing Pakistan for decades.
   And the US would find it hard to
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   the Pakistanis and the Saudis has frayed considerably.
   2. Saudi nuclearization ensures Middle East nuclear catastrophe
   Eric S. Edelman et al 2011 (
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   . 66 Vol. 90 No. 1 )
    Were Saudi Arabia to acquire nuclear weapons
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   of power and creating incentives for an attack. 

FX-T

A. Interpretation-Democracy assistance is one of 3 categories

Carothers 2000 (Thomas vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “Taking Stock of Democracy Assistance” American Democracy Promotion )

The term ‘democracy assistance’ …and…, and educational exchange programmes.

B. Violation- Civil society does not include setting up water

C. Standards-

1. Limits- The affirmative explodes the topic by allowing an unending amount of interpretations meaning the neg will never be able to predict what the aff will do, this creates an unfair research burden

2. Ground- the affirmative steals negative ground; this should be a negative cp, forcing us to only read generic CP

D. Topicality is a Voting Issue for limits, and ground

1NC ASPEC Shell

1. Interpretation: The USFG is either the legislative, executive or judicial branch. The affirmative must specify this in the plan

Dictionary of Politics 1973, (p 509)

The structure of …and… membership in the other.

2. Violation – The Affirmative fails to specify an agent of action. Rather they just say “United States Federal Government.”

3. Failure to specify is illegitimate and a voting issue.

a. Ground – Specifying an agent is critical to CP that are critiquing the agent of the plan.  The agent must be named in the plan to ensure that Counterplans compete and to maximize the value of pre-round preparation.

b. Moving Target – Failure to specify an agent in the plan text allows the affirmative to shift out of 1NC arguments by allowing new 2AC clarification about the agent of action.  This makes it impossible for the negative to debate because the AFF could always change their plan after they heard the 1NC arguments.

Mortal Kombat K 1NC

Debate is a game of competing imaginations—the magic wand of fiat lets us roleplay as the USFG and engage in a duel over what action is more desirable for humanity.   This models an Aristotelian moral education—individuals fashion themselves as virtuous role models that learn praiseworthy political behaviors through repetition of debates.  However, positing ourselves as heroic saviors is living a lie—it effaces humanity’s internal drive towards destruction—this lack of self-recognition ensures suicidal nihilism and global annihilation.  Vote negative to imagine the following: The [aff actor] should ban all [plan]

Imagining yourself as a destroyer is distinct from killing people in real life—the alternative enacts a hypermorality that envisions spectacular violence so we don’t need to enact it as often.

Itzkowitz 99 (Kenneth, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marietta College, “To Witness Spectacles of Pain:  The Hypermorality of Georges Bataille,” College Literature 26:1, Winter, p 21-32//shree)

The key is to recognize ourselves as …and… lies at the heart of us all.

Bauldrillard K

1. The scenario for nuclear escalation and war they imagine will always be prevented by deterrence.  However, the fear of nuclear war is used to justify a state security apparatus that freezes the social and maintains a system of perfect control.

Baudrillard in 81 [Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation” p. 32-35]

The apotheosis of simulation: …and… of planetary control (where even the super- powers of this scenario are not free-the whole world is satellized).

2.  The true damage of nuclear weapons is not the war that could result, but in the fear and mental destruction that fear of them demands.  Instead of trying to avoid the catastrophe, we need to embrace its simulation and break the mental chains of deterrence.

Baudrillard in 81 [Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation” p. 55-57]

Because an explosion is …and…, therein lies terrorism's ambiguity.

3. Thus the alt--when confronted with the ethical injunctions of the aff, respond with “I would prefer not to”

Baudrillard 98 (Jean, Ex-Prof of Media and Philosophy @ EGS, Paroxysm, p 60//shree)

JB:  The paradox of …and…, and liberation even less so.

1. The scenario for nuclear escalation and war they imagine will always be prevented by deterrence.  However, the fear of nuclear war is used to justify a state security apparatus that freezes the social and maintains a system of perfect control.

Baudrillard in 81 [Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation” p. 32-35]

The apotheosis of simulation…and… system of planetary control (where even the super- powers of this scenario are not free-the whole world is satellized).

2.  The true damage of nuclear weapons is not the war that could result, but in the fear and mental destruction that fear of them demands.  Instead of trying to avoid the catastrophe, we need to embrace its simulation and break the mental chains of deterrence.

Baudrillard in 81 [Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation” p. 55-57]

Because an explosion …and… Besides, therein lies terrorism's ambiguity.

3. Thus the alt--when confronted with the ethical injunctions of the aff, respond with “I would prefer not to”

Baudrillard 98 (Jean, Ex-Prof of Media and Philosophy @ EGS, Paroxysm, p 60//shree)

JB:  The paradox of …and… and liberation even less so.