Topicality: Democracy Assistance
A. INTERPRETATION. “Democracy Assistance” is grant-aided material, technical and financial support to pro-democracy initiatives.
Burnell 07 Prof. of Politics @ University of Warwick, England
Peter, “Does International Democracy Promotion Work?” Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, ISBN 978-3-88985-354-7) http://www.die-gdi.de/CMS Homepage/openwebcms3.nsf/%28ynDK_ contentByKey%29/ADMR-7BRF46/$FILE/BurnellPromotionWork.pdf
All things considered, however, there is
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with building political parties, and so on.
B. VIOLATION. The affirmative plan does not meet the specification of democracy provided by the Burnell evidence.
Specifically: The affirmative seeks to change the politics of the target country. This is not assistance
Lappin, 10 University of Leuven (Belgium) Centre for Peace Research and Strategic Studies PhD candidate
[Richard, participant in democracy assistance missions with the UN, EU, OSCE, and Carter Center, University of Belgrade political sciences visiting scholar, Central European Journal of International & Security Studies, Volume 4 Issue 1, “What we talk about when we talk about democracy assistance: the problem of definition in post-conflict approaches to democratization” http://www.cejiss.org/issue/2010-volume-4-issue-1/lappin, p.189, accessed 7-25-11 dbh
Democracy assistance is not concerned with ‘exporting
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precise instrument within a broader democracy promotion paradigm.
C. BETTER INTERPRETATION STANDARDS (choose one or more)
Better Preparation and Limits. Their interpretation unlimits by allowing hundreds of cases that involve diplomacy, military action, economic and social aid, conditionality for each topic country. Negatives will not be prepared with relevant positions and evidence against every action that the US government or debaters could take toward the topic countries. Since the US is heavily involved in the Middle East, the abuse seems inevitable.
Better Clash and Ground. Non-democracy assistance forms of government or individual action should be stable negative ground so that we can test the necessity and sufficiency of democracy assistance. Instead negative ground changes every debate.
Communication. They make the word “assistance” meaningless by stretching it to cover any action. Mooting words leads to misunderstanding, which hurts education.
Bright Line Standard. If the affirmative has better contextual evidence saying that its plan is considered to be democracy assistance and not just a kind of democracy promotion, it meets the violation. Effects T confuses T with solvency and requires a subjective, not objective, judge decision which is unfair and is an independent voter.
FX T – The USFG is not the direct body substantially increasing its democracy assistance. The NDI is not an official federal agency but rather an outside non-profit. This leads to unpredictable action by the NDI and also cannot be fiated to occur. Direct implementation by USFG is a key limit of the topic and is key to the research burden. This is an independent voter for fairness.
Vagueness – the lack of specification of the types of democracy assistance offered by the NDI is bad
D. VOTING ISSUE. For reasons of fairness, education, and communication. Evaluate the round under competing interpretations
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 think
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of those are 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 US security guarantees
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a 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 Postgraduate School presented
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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 have
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addition to the cost-enhancing MD project.
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BRINK: The spread of democracy in Middle East is creating dangerous levels of Anti-Semitic violence
Cohen 11 (Richard, Reporter whom has received the Sigma Delta Chi and Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild Awards for his investigative reporting “Can the Arab World leave anti-Semitism behind?” The Washington Post, February 28) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR2011022805199.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
During World War II, the leader of
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critic only of Israel, I'd be ashamed.
LINK: By giving democracy assistance to regimes/dissidents in the Middle East, you discursively uphold the radical anti-semitic rhetoric
Amos 11(Dared, Middle East blog with a focus on Israel [uses other articles to prove his point, not just opinion writer] “Middle East: Protests For Democracy Amid Expressions Of Antisemitism” February 15) http://daledamos.blogspot.com/2011/02/middle-east-protests-for-democracy-amid.html
In addition to the article quoted above,
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if I do not share the media's enthusiasm.
IMPACT: Increasing approval of Anti-Semitic violence and hopes for democracy in the Middle East will cause a Jihad against Israel. Iran-Israeli war causes environmental damage, massive loss of life, and a downward spiral of violence.
Beres 11 (Louis, Ph.D. Princeton and is Prof. of International Law at Purdue. Born in Zürich, he is the author of several major books on nuclear war “A Hard Look at What We Must Not Allow” 9/4/11) http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=236584
For a variety of reasons, neither Israel
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“martyrdom” would fade in a flash.
