Saudi Relations DA

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• Despite uprisings, relations are very good because they have similar strategic interests. 

  AFP. 9.16.11.  (“US, Saudi relationship in good shape: top US official.” Donilon is the U.N. advisor to the U.S.

  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jA_FSDO25m2rYXq51dz_ThnLtD3w?docId=CNG.b6d207691ba28c0711d32cc4f2496bd7.551.)  {M.e. 10.04.11}

  But Donilon said that it 

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   could also be at risk.

  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" http://www.presstv.com/detail/189582.html, SRM)

  Webster Griffin Tarpley: Well, I 

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   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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   cost 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” http://www.ciaonet.org/olj/si/si_3_8/si_3_8_ruj01.pdf)

  James Russell from the Naval 

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   means 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 regimes 

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   to the cost-enhancing MD project.

  
  

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• U.S. led democracy assistance necessitates the exclusion of the feminine by exporting the inherent gender bias of Western political theory and naturalizing already existing patriarchal structures.

  Handrahan 1 (Lori M., Prof @ American U, International Center for Gender Studies, Gendering Ethnicity: Implications for Democracy Assistance, pg. 73-74//shree)

  Moreover, feminists have argued that 

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  political is personal and male.

  Patriarchy results in structural violence - outweighs imagined scenarios

  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”, http://www.jstor.org/stable/762496]

   

  The most insidious myth about 

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   brutal violation of their bodies.

  Patriarchy turns and outweighs case – it makes nuclear war, environmental disaster, economic collapse, and other types of oppression inevitable.

  Peterson 99

  (V. Spike.  Professor of Political Science.  University of Arizona.  “Global Gender Issues: Revisited.” Westview Press. p.17)

  Finally, gender-sensitive studies improve 

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  at work in the world.

  We instead choose to adopt a feminist curiosity that challenges traditional notions of political decision making. Only this curiosity can solve for the root causes of gendered politics.

  Enloe, 07

  (Cynthia, Research Professor, Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link, Department of International Development, Community, and Environment and Women's Studies, Clark University, p. 17) MKD

  To make sense of today's 

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  "works" the way it does.

  The international system will remain fundamentally flawed until we take the real lived experiences of women seriously

  Enloe, 2007

  (Cynthia, Research Professor, Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link, Department of International Development, Community, and Environment and Women's Studies, Clark University, p. 18)MKD

  When you try to explain

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  today's and tomorrow's international system.

  
  
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• The affirmative employs strong ontological claims as a basis for their affirmation. Assertions about agents, subjects, others, self and the world itself are premised in an orientation which presume certainty and resolution. Strong ontology manifests in resolution and confidence while weak ontology acknowledges doubt and skepticism 

  White 2005 (Stephen K., James Hart Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, “Weak Ontology: Genealogy and Critical Issues,” Hedgehog Review, Summer, p.14-15) PM

  From the point of view of a strict secularist, religion is to be kept out of the public sphere. In essence, there is a spatial image: at issue is where you carry your theistic ontological commitments. 

  The distinction between strong and 

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   evil, us and the enemy.

  The alternative is to vote negative for a weak ontological orientation. Alex and I are not resolved but contingently affirm with hesitation to provide substantial civil society support for the purpose of political party development of the Yemen Youth Movement.

  Mustapha 2009 (Jennifer, Department of Political Science at McMaster University, “An Analytical Survey of Critical Security Studies: Making the Case for a (Modified) Post-structuralist Approach, Paper presented at the 2009 CPSA, Ottawa, http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2009/Mustapha.pdf, p. 2-3) PM

  At the outset, it is important to define what I mean by “mainstream” theoretical approaches to international relations (IR) and security. 

  While there are good arguments

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   and affirmed in its wake”.

  
  
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China Bashing DA

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• Boehner is using PC to prevent the discharge petition

  Reuters October 13th 2011 “Analysis: Boehner stands firm against yuan bill” http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/13/us-china-usa-yuan-idUSTRE79B07M20111013

  Other tactics may yet be tried.

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   opposes the China currency legislation.

  Moves to compromise with Obama on issues like the plan empirically force Boehner to the right on other issues to consolidate support for his speakership- like the currency bill

  Boston Globe July 28, 2011  “Boehner can’t please Tea Party, but bipartisan deal could work” http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-28/bostonglobe/29825554_1_tea-party-michele-bachmann-debt-ceiling/2

  In Boehner’s mind, his speakership 

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   would be entirely self-inflicted

  Vote guarantees passage

  Washington Times  October 17^th 2011 “Washington contemplates tougher China trade policy” http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/17/washington-contemplates-tougher-china-trade-policy/

  Of course, these are only 

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   if it got to his desk.

  New tariffs on Chinese goods trigger a trade war

  Forbes, 9-17, 10, http://blogs.forbes.com/gordonchang/2010/09/17/the-chinese-currency-weakens

  At the hearing, Senator Charles 

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   nobody and damage everybody. 

  US-China trade war triggers a war

  Ben Landy,, Director of Research and Strategy at the Atlantic Media Company, publisher of the Atlantic Monthly, National Journal, and Government Executive magazines. Landy served in various research and project management positions at the Brookings Institution and Center for Strategic and International Studies, two leading public policy think tanks in Washington, D.C. Ben holds a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University. April 3, 2007, http://chinaredux.com/2007/04/03/protectionism-and-war/#comments

  The greatest threat for the 

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   budgets and anti-satellite tests.

  HOT WAR WITH CHINA ENSURES EXTINCTION
  (STRAIT TIMES, June 25, 2K, Pg. l/n)
  
  THE high-intensity scenario postulates

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  see the destruction of civilization. 

  
  
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China Relations DA

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• 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, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5itGyFVCu0Pqzy4rPZ8Z17EinhYDw?docId=CNG.96d029e6aa8114a2432f65fea5b5b9f8.2f1 viewed 10/16/11)

  US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke 

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  rules and institutions," he continued.

  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, 

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   deepening economic and political reforms. 

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

  Cohen 09 (William S., Center for Strategic and International Studies Counselor and Trustee , “Smart Power in U.S.-China Relations,” http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/090309_mcgiffert_uschinasmartpower_web.pdf) PE

  The evolution of Sino-U.S. relations 

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   tensions between the two countries.

  US/China relations key to prevent war in Asia

  Adhariri 99, Armed Forces Staff College national security professor, [Eschan, JANE'S INTELLIGENCE REVIEW, August 1]

  Looking ahead, a continued deterioration 

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   Pakistan to amicably resolve it.  

  
  
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