Saudi DA

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  Unique Link - pushing democracy assistance will collapse US-Saudi relations

  Tarpley 2011 (Press TV interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley, author, journalist and lecturer from Washington, June 18, "Saudi Arabia alarmed by US intentions" , SRM)

   

  Webster Griffin Tarpley: Well, I

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  means to destabilize the kingdom.

   

  Relations decline over the Arab Spring will drive the Saudis to proliferate

  Guzansky July 1st, 2011 (Yoel Guzansky is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. He joined INSS after serving at Israel's National Security Council; "TEHRAN TESTS SAUDIS' NERVE ON NUKES", LEXIS, SRM)

   

  UNTIL recently it appeared that

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  of more than $US300 billion.

   

  Saudi prolif leads to fast regional prolif

  Center for Contemporary Conflict 2004  (“Conference on WMD Proliferation in the Middle East: Directions and Policy Options in the New Century” )

   

  James Russell from the Naval

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  to ensure U.S. engagement?

   

  Rapid prolif causes pre-emptive nuclear war.

  Heurlin 2005 (Jean Monnet Professor of European Security and Integration at the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen, and Sten Rynning, "Missile defence", p 162-3)

   

  Arms control and non-proliferation

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  the cost-enhancing MD project.

   

   

   

   

  
  

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EU CP

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  //EU can solve case

  The EU has a solvency mechanism

   

  KARACASULU 2006 (ASSISTANT PROF. NLÜFER KARACASULU GÖKSEL & RESEARCH ASSISTANT ZÜHAL ÜNALP ÇEPEL DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS) EUROPEAN NEIGHBORHOOD POLICY AND DEMOCRACY PROMOTION

   

  The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)

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  countries on Europe’s periphery

   

  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 of Sciences) Jeff Lovitt (Executive Director of PASOS ) “Re-energising Europe to Champion Democracy” 2008

   

  But if the Visegrad Four

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  development in other countries.

   

  US empirically ineffective at consolidating democracies

   

  Jeffrey Kopstein 2006 (Director of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Munk Centre for International Studies. Professor of political science, University of Toronto) The Washington Quarterly, 29:2, 85-98 “The transatlantic divide over democracy promotion”

   

  Yet, although the U.S. model

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  lesser extent in Serbia

   

  US credibility on democracy assistance low now (Uniqueness card)

   

  Jacek Kucharczyk (Research Director at the Institute of Public Affairs, PhD in Sociology from the Institute

  of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences) Jeff Lovitt (Executive Director of PASOS ) “Re-energising Europe to Champion Democracy” 2008

   

  At the same time,

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  record on foreign policy.

   

   

  
  
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  Only a feminist curiosity can solves for the root causes of gendered politics

  Enloe, 2007

  (Cynthia, Research Professor, Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link, and , Clark University, p. 17)MKD

   

  To make sense of today's

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                          world "works" the way it does.

   

  Without a feminist curiosity we will be unable to explain how the world truly works. This makes their scenarios highly unlikely

  Enloe, 2007

  (Cynthia, Research Professor, Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link, and , Clark University, p.67 )MKD

   

   

  While many men and women

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  we inade­quately (unreliably) explain?

   

  The key to developing a feminist curiosity lies in not taking conclusions for granted

  Enloe, 2007

  (Cynthia, Research Professor, Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link, and , Clark University, p. 1)MKD

   

  Developing a "curiosity" involves exploring, questioning

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  take for granted can be a political act

   

  Patriarchy results in structural violence

  Bunch 90 – She founded the Center for Women's Global Leadership,  recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights,  currently a member of the Advisory Committee for the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Division,  recently served on the Advisory Committee for the Secretary General’s 2006 Report to the General Assembly on Violence against Women (Charlotte, “Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Towards a Re-Vision of Human Rights”, ]

   

  The most insidious myth about

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  often brutal violation of their bodies

  
  
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China DA

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  1. New Ambassador to Beijing revitalizes the tense US-Sino relations and positions us to make progress on human rights and international stability

  Knox July 27, 2011 – Olivier, correspondent who covers the US Congress and politics generally for AFP (US Senate confirms Locke as China ambassador, AFP, viewed 10/16/11)

   

  US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke

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  prevailing international norms, rules and institutions

   

  1. Democracy Promotion in the Middle East kills relations

  Yinhong 11 May 17th, 2011 Author: Shi Yinhong, Renmin University of China

  The recent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya

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  dramatic political changes in such countries

   

  1. Human rights outweigh national security because of real practical value.

  Smiley 07 (“Why Human Rights are More Important than National Security” by Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and essayist. November 19, 2007. Published online by the Huffington Post, and available at . last accessed August 25, 2010)

   

  Human rights are defined, most

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  especially from a writer for Salon

   

   

  2. Relations key to the economy, energy security, climate control, proliferation, and terrorism

  Cohen 2009 (William S., Center for Strategic and International Studies Counselor and Trustee , “Smart Power in U.S.-China Relations,” ) PE

   

  The evolution of Sino-U.S. relations

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  the current global financial crisis

   

   

  
  
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