T – Democracy assistance
A. Interpretation – Democracy assistance is the DIRECT transfer of funds, expertise, and materials to foster democratic groups – IT IS DISTINCT from democracy promotion, democracy support, democracy aid, and support for democratic development
Richard Lappin (Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies, University of Leuven; Visiting Scholar, University of Belgrade) 2010 “What We Talk ABout When We Talk ABout Democracy Assistance: The Problem of Definition in Post-Conflict Approaches to Democratisation” Central European Journal of International & Security Studies
By the end of the 1990s, the
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and the fostering of negative perceptions of democracy assistance
SKFTA will pass now – Political capital crucial and deal key to the alliance
Sukhan Kim 9/6 (senior partner specializing in international trade at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP) "Pushing the FTA to the finish line" koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2941157
Despite these hurdles, the time has come
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finally get on with ratification of Korus FTA.
Plain drains political capital —military and oil interests are at stake
Davidson 11 (Lawrence, history professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, 5/11/11, “Turning a Blind Eye to Bahrain's Abuse” Consortium News) http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/051111a.html
As the Gutman piece tells us, that
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Middle East oil in "friendly" hands.
Failure to ratify SKFTA crushes the alliance and US leadership in Asia.
The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) 1/12 “U.S.-South Korea Trade Pact: A Turning Point for American Exports?”, Knowledge@Wharton, Law and Public Policy, http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2671
What's more, the fate of the pact
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President has put his reputation on the line."
Alliance is critical to Prevent Korean war.
Pritchard et al, 09 – President of the Korea Economic Institute (Charles L, 6/16. With John H. Tilelli Jr., Chairman and CEO, Cypress International, and Scott A. Snyder, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Korea Studies, CFR. “A New Chapter for U.S.-South Korea Alliance.” Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.cfr.org/publication/19635/new_chapter_for_ussouth_korea_alliance.html)
While all eyes have been trained on North
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persuade China to put pressure on North Korea.
Korean war risks extinction
Clare Doyle, CWI, “Korean Peninsula: Nuclear Sabre-Rattling,” SOCIALIST WORLD, 6-7-09, www.socialistworld.net/eng/2009/06/0701.html, accessed 5-4-10.
In the past couple of weeks, three
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war threatening the very survival of the planet.
NEXT OFF
Clinton is devoting her political capital to the peace process – it’s key and will create a deal
Landler 9-5-2011, Mark, New York Times, In Middle East peace talks, Hillary faces a crucial test, http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/in-middle-east-peace-talks-hillary-faces-a-crucial-test-49818
Washington: For much of her tenure as
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, "but I'm not in office anymore."
Clinton’s diplomatic capital is zero-sum. Spending capital on MENA trades off with other policies
Kelemen 8-21-2011, NPR, Michele, A former NPR Moscow bureau chief. She worked eight years working for the Voice of America. Michele Kelemen now covers the State Department and Washington's diplomatic corps., Kelemen has been traveling with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from Asia to the Middle East and Europe, tracking the Obama administration's broad foreign policy agenda, Hillary Clinton: U.S. Diplomacy Is Stretched Thin, http://www.npr.org/people/2100727/michele-kelemenhttp://www.npr.org/2011/08/16/139678323/hillary-clinton-u-s-diplomacy-is-stretched-thin
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the bruising
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wisely where we intervene and what we do."
Failure now ensures nuclear war
Alon Ben-Meir (professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU) 8/24/10“Direct Talks and their Potential Consequences”, Middle East Online, http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=40818
President Obama has already invested substantial political capital
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and Iran is racing toward acquiring nuclear weapons.
Text: The United States federal government should require applicants at four-year colleges and universities to perform national service and should expand the size of the United States army and marine corps.
COUNTERPLAN SOLVES REGIONAL WAR, HEGEMONY, AND PEACEKEEPING
CARTER AND GLASTRIS 2005
(Philip, Fmr. Army Captain and Writer for the Washington Monthly, Paul, Ed. Of Wash. Mo., Washington Monthly, March)
A better solution would fix the weaknesses of
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we have the will to do so again?
CP Text: The European Union should expand engagement with political economic and social actors in Bahrain over United States military presence, including assistance to ensure that the benefits of the United States military presence are more broadly distributed.
EU solves Bahrain best – soft power effective
Fakhro 2009
[E. A., Master of Law Student in International Human Rights Law at Harvard Law School and LLM from Queen Mary College, University of London, “The European Union and Islam: Democracy Promotion in Bahrain and the Arab World”, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance]
In developing its democracy promotion strategy in the
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region and further its own democracy promotion agenda.
Democracy K
Democracy causes extinction. The AFFs Focus on Democracy fails to consider how this political configuration effects the environment Man’s Rule over nature encourages population growth which devalues life and destroys the planet.
Linkola 2005, Radical Finnish deep ecologist, Employee of the Finish Government, Dissident, and Fisherman, Chapter VI - The World And We, The Doctrine Of Survival And Doctor Ethics, http://www.penttilinkola.com/pentti_linkola/ecofascism_writings/voisikoelamavoittaa_translation/VI%20-%20The%20World%20And%20We/
If man does not grow humble... It
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a sparse, noble species in its beginning.
Our Alternative is an abandonment of democracy and embrace Biocentrism. This solves our technological obsession and the overconsumption of resources
Berley 2011, Twim, Last Date Modified, Sunday, May 22, 2011 12:51:33 AM, Environmental Philosopher commenting on Kaarlo Pentti Linkola, A radical Finnish deep ecologist, Employee of the Finish Government, Dissident, and Fisherman, C:\Users\Brian's\Desktop\LinkolaBio.pdf
In the essay collection Unelmat paremmasta maailmasta (
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growth the biggest threat to life on Earth.
Demcoracy Adv Ans
Second, War will escalate high alert guarantees
DR Alan Phillips Oct. 2000 http://www.peace.caInuclearwinterrevisitedhtm
With thousands of rocket-launched weapons at
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hunger and disease, in a radioactive environment.
Third, War is always possible – statements of lasting peace have never been correct – Mandelbaum’s exception of Russia and China undermine their entire argument*
Donald Kagan is Hilihouse Professor of History and Classics at Yale University “Is Major War Obsolete? An Exchange” Survival, vol. 41, no. 2, Summer 1999, pp. 139—52
I agree that the present moment in history
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to me that his entire thesis is undermined.
Leadership Adv Ans
Bahrain not key – we could move to UAE or Qatar
Tomlinson 2011
[Hugh, The Australian, “US fleet may quit troubled Bahrain”, July 21, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/us-fleet-may-quit-troubled-bahrain/story-e6frg6so-1226098580227]
The UAE is considered the most likely destination
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if Washington signalled it was ready to move.
2NC Linkola K: AT Democracy is good:
Democracy is the seal of ruin – The impact is Extinction
Linkola 2005, Radical Finnish deep ecologist, Employee of the Finish Government, Dissident, and Fisherman, Chapter VI - The World And We, The Doctrine Of Survival And Doctor Ethics, http://www.penttilinkola.com/pentti_linkola/ecofascism_writings/voisikoelamavoittaa_translation/VI%20-%20The%20World%20And%20We/
Democracy - the seal of ruin Stupidity culminates
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mankind is carefully preparing for its own death.
Democracy is bad – It is the religion of death which encourages wasteful consumerism and destroys the planet
Berley 2011, Twim, Last Date Modified, Sunday, May 22, 2011 12:51:33 AM, Environmental Philosopher commenting on Kaarlo Pentti Linkola, A radical Finnish deep ecologist, Employee of the Finish Government, Dissident, and Fisherman, C:\Users\Brian's\Desktop\LinkolaBio.pdf
Linkola blames humans for the continuous degradation of
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policies have had over the past two centuries.
DRAFT SOLVES Military
SHORT-TERM DRAFTEES CAN FILL VITAL UNSKILLED POSITIONS
MOSKOS AND GLASTRIS 2001
(Charles, a former draftee, is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Paul Glastris is editor in chief of The Washington Monthly and a senior fellow at the Western Policy Center, Washington Monthly, November, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0111.moskos.glastris.html)
One argument is that today's military requires professional
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U.S. to abandon other commitments.
THE DRAFT IS KEY TO RETENTION
MOSKOS AND GLASTRIS 2001
(Charles, a former draftee, is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Paul Glastris is editor in chief of The Washington Monthly and a senior fellow at the Western Policy Center, Washington Monthly, November, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0111.moskos.glastris.html)
Draftees would not have to be offered the
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-to-fill skills and leadership positions.
DRAFT WOULD INCREASE THE QUALITY OF THE U.S. MILITARY
MOSKOS 2001
(Charles, Prof of Sociology at Northwestern and former draftee, American Enterprise Institute Online, December, http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.15445/article_detail.asp)
Even before the war on terror opened,
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took in some 380 recruits with felony arrests.
MILITARY POWER IS KEY TO HEGEMONY–WITHOUT HARDPOWER, OVERALL U.S. INFLUENCE WILL COLLAPSE
ARMY HQ 2001
(Headquarters of the Army, Field Manual #1, “The Army,” June 14, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/1/index.html)
America is a strong Nation. It has
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and warfighting in support of our national interests.
THE DRAFT INCREASES UNIT COHESION
CARTER 2005
(Philip, Former Army Captain, attorney, and writer for the Washington Monthly, Legal Affairs Debate Club, http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_draft0405.msp 4-22)
You and I both know that soldiers put
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, and so few are bearing its cost.
COHESION AND MORALE ARE KEY TO READINESS AND DETERRENCE
DONNELLY 1995
(Elaine, President of the Center for Military Readiness, Fall, http://vikingphoenix.com/politics/Election2000/Issues2000/NationalSecurity/ucwmndon.htm)
At a time when international commitments are growing
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that makes military life more difficult or dangerous.
INCREASING U.S. TROOP STRENGTH IS CRITICAL TO ENCOURAGE ALLIED TROOP COMMITMENTS
CARTER AND GLASTRIS 2005
(Philip, Fmr. Army Captain and Writer for the Washington Monthly, Paul, Ed. Of Wash. Mo., Washington Monthly, March)
There's no reason to think that America will
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major war or humanitarian intervention in the future.
EXPANDING ARMY SIZE SOLVES HEGEMONY AND IRAQ
KAGAN 2004
(Frederick, Military Historian, The Weekly Standard, December 27)
The consequences may well be disastrous should
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in Iraq and in the war on terror.
COUNTERPLAN SOLVES HEGEMONY
CARTER AND GLASTRIS 2005
(Philip, Fmr. Army Captain and Writer for the Washington Monthly, Paul, Ed. Of Wash. Mo., Washington Monthly, March)
But there's a deeper problem, one that
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military, but it probably can't do both.
