ADVANTAGE 1: THE CRISIS IN DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE
The F Process devastated USAID’s already bureaucraticized procedures preventing responsiveness and thereby solvency in all USAID programs from implementation to evaluation
Carothers in 9 {Thomas--Revitalizing U.S. Democracy Assistance The Challenge of USAID http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/revitalizing_democracy_assistance.pdf P22-25}
USAID’s basic operating procedures
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within the agency, or outside it.5
Thus we demand the United States federal government should substantially increase its democracy assistance through utilization of Evaluating Democracy and Governance Effectiveness (EDGE) as a debureaucratization tool with Egypt.
Egyptian policies reflect the confusion of our democracy assistance efforts to evaluate events and not systems. Misattributions about the system must be studied and corrected.
Taleb & Blyth 11 (Nassim Nicholas, Mark, Foreign Affairs; “The Black Swan of Cairo” How Suppressing Volatility Makes the World Less Predictable and More Dangerous, May/Jun2011, Vol. 90 Issue 3, p33-39, 7p)
Most explanations being offered
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process what they mean.
Now is the key time for major reform of assistance programs. Even the Secretary of State acknowledged that our global strategy is not viable without policy coherence
Atwood in 10 {J. Brian—Dean,Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Administrator of the U.S.AID 1993-99 Elevating Development Assistance PRISM 1, no. 3 http://www.ndu.edu/press/elevating-development-assistance.html}
The time is
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a signed peace agreement.
The radical change of the plan rethinks the assumptions of democratization. It represents the only hope
Mouffe 92 (Chantal, Professor of Politics and International Relations at University of Westminster, Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community, p. 1-2, Sydnor)
On the eve of
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the left-wing project.
The current framing of democracy assistance allows for neoliberal ends which allows for dictatorial regimes throughout the world
Gerald Sussman 06, teaches urban studies and communications at Portland State University and has published widely on the international political economy of information technology, mass media, and development. The Myths of ‘Democracy Assistance’: U.S. Political Intervention in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe, 2006, Volume 58, Issue 07 (December), MCJ
U.S. interventionism, except perhaps
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for all I care.”27
If the majority has an extremist ideology guiding them, then democracy will continue to establish and legitimize oppression of whoever the minority is.
Martin Weber 11, is the creator of “What I was Thinking”, “Democracy in Egypt–further oppression?”, February 4, 2011
We may then conclude
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I fear will happen there.
The dramatic events in the Middle East prove that now is the key time for a renewed US commitment to international order
G. John Ikenberry 11, is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. “A World of Our Making”, Issue #21, Summer 2011, http://www.democracyjournal.org/21/a-world-of-our-making-1.php, MCJ
This spring’s dramatic upheaval
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its long-term security.
Our failure to adjust our approach to democracy promotion will continue the imperial logic and result in extinction.
Eckhardt 90 (William, Lentz Peace Research Laboratory of St. Louis, JOURNAL OF PEACE RESEARCH, February 1990, p. 15-16)
Modern Western Civilization used
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depend upon our choice.
Status Quo Liberalism is security politics thinly veiled, even its intentions are not explicit they it hidden exclusion and the possibility for fascist mobilization.
Neocleous 2009 (Mark, Professor in the Department of Politics and History at Brunel University “The Fascist Moment: Security, Exclusion, Extermination” Studies in Social Justice Volume 3, Issue 1, 23-37, 2009, pdf, p. 24-25,)
Security politics is a
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together: security, exclusion, extermination.
This security fetishism and drive to create order causes destabilization and extinction
Dillon & Campbell 1992 (Michael, @ Lancaster U, and David @ Newcastle U, “The Political Subject of Violence”, p. 163-164,)
This interpretation of violence
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in any other house'.10
ADVANTAGE TWO: ISLAMIC FEMINISM
Debureacratizing the evaluation model creates a window for excluded stakeholders to participate in authentic citizen deliberations. Their voices can be represented fully in citizen-directed discourse
Wong in 08 {CREATING DEMOCRATIC VALUE: EVALUATING EFFORTS TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY ABROAD Approaches to the Evaluation of International Democracy Assistance Ging -Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) GBP 07.115 March 21 P17}
Crawford offers an alternative
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an evaluation (MacNeil, 2002).
Aligning our democracy assistance with inclusion, opens the door to reach out to women leaders in democracy assistance solves
Coleman, 7-26-11, {Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative and Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations Isobel, On the Front Lines of Change: Women in the Arab Uprisings. Project on Middle East Democracy, http://pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Policy-Brief_Coleman.pdf, p. 5}
U.S. interests are best
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by Saudi women themselves.
Secular-liberalism is paternalistic, prescribing a singular account of meaningful politics, When we ignore our framing of Islamic women, we ignore the countless human disasters brought about by Western values.
Mahmood 05 (Saba, Professor of Anthropology at UC-Berkeley, The Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, p. xi-xii, Sydnor)
The reason progressive leftists
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of analysis should proceed.
This Critical framing is a prior question to any of their policy arguments- it shapes how we see politics and engage in the structure of the political. Our demand starts in discourse.
Hinds & Windt Jr. 1991 (Lynn Boyd, is Associate Professor of Broadcasting at West Virginia University. and Theodore Otto, Professor of Political Rhetoric at the University of Pittsburgh. “The Cold War As Rhetoric: The Beginnings, 1945–1950,” 1991, 6-10)
The primary materials for
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political construction of reality
We know we’re not the state and that’s good, our singular demand is the starting point for broader structural change in the way in which the state operates
Walzer, Professor of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Studies & Former Professor at Harvard, 1983 (Michael, “The Politics of Michel Foucault,” Dissent, Fall)
Here again a comparison
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weakness of his political theory.
