No cuts now – cooler heads will prevail

Samuel A Worthington, analyst for the Guardian, 8-1-2011, “US must learn from Britain and not cut foreign aid”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/aug/01/us-foreign-aid-cuts

Haggling in Congress over bills to fund the

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which will help shape the final budget numbers.

Plan trades off with development assistance and other USAID programs – each project competes for funding

Lisa Schirch, executive director of the 3D Security Initiative and professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Eastern Mennonite University, 4-27-2007, “7 Obstacles to Budgeting for 3D Security”, http://www.3dsecurity.org/node/138

Institutional Divisions Create Obstacles for Development and Diplomacy

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to ensuring adequate investments in development and diplomacy.

Development aid is key to stability and heg

Micah Zenko, fellow at the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations and Rebecca R. Friedman, research associate in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, 2-16-2011, “A soft power bargain”, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/16/opinion/la-oe-zenko-fgn-aid-20110216

In short, a fully funded foreign assistance

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disregarding their repeated calls for stronger civilian partners.

Heg key to economic growth and solving poverty

Bradley Thayer, Associate Professor at Missouri State University, 2007, "The Case For The American Empire," American Empire: A Debate, Published by Routledge.

Economic prosperity is also a product of the

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benign processes of globalization, which promote prosperity.”

Extinction

Phil Kerpen, National Review Online, October 29, 2008, Don't Turn Panic Into Depression, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/29/opinion/main4555821.shtml

It’s important that we avoid all these policy

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risk armed conflicts on an even greater scale.

KORUS will pass – linking and TAA compromises

Barbara Wanner, staff writer, 8-30-2011, “KORUS Trade Agreement Poised For Congressional Approval,” Korea Matters for America, http://www.koreamattersforamerica.org/2011/08/korus-trade-agreement-poised-for-congressional-approval/

Supporters of the Korea-United States Free

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of the TAA legislation as soon as possible.”

Plan costs PC

Shadi Hamid, director of research at Brookings Doha Center, 1-27-2011, “Tunisia, Egypt, Arab world need bold US support for democracy, not mixed messages,” Jewish World Review, http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0111/middle_east_democracy.php3

These actions have a clear intent — to

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Oddly, they've become more difficult to find.

PC is key

Wharton School, U of Penn, 1-12-2011, “U.S.-South Korea Trade Pact: A Turning Point for American Exports?,” http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2671

Last March, when President Obama announced his

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anti-trade Democrats and Tea Party Republicans.

Key to the alliance

Mark Manyin, specialist in Asian affairs with the CRS, and William Cooper, specialist in International Trade and Finance with the CRS, 2009, “Can the United States and South Korea Sing Without KORUS?” CRS, http://www.keia.org/Publications/JointAcademicStudies/2009/Cooper.pdf

Although the passage of the KORUS FTA is

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U.S. troops on the peninsula.

Solves NK and other scenarios for war

Charles L. Pritchard, President, Korea Economic Institute, John Tilelli, Chairman and CEO, Cypress Int’l, and Scott Snyder, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Korea Studies, June 16, 2009, “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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cooperation in the service of our shared interests.

North Korea war goes nuclear

Peter Hayes, prof at Victoria University, and Michael Green, Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute, 1-5-2010, “The Path Not Taken, the Way Still Open: Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”, http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/10001HayesHamalGreen.pdf

The consequences of failing to address the proliferation

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that warrants priority consideration from the international community.

Text: The European Union should establish the European Endowment for Democracy to…[insert affirmative mechanism].

EU endowment for democracy is sufficient to solve a liberal transition in the Middle East

Michael Allen, Editor and Special assistant for government relations and public affairs at the national endowment for democracy, 6-6-2011, “EU ‘needs a Euro-NED’ to promote Arab democracy”, Democracy Digest, http://www.demdigest.net/2011/06/eu-needs-a-euro-ned-to-promote-arab-democracy/

The European Union must shift from a top

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culturally-embedded and sustainable “deep democracy.”