Iranian retaliation would close the Strait of Hormuz and cause Iraq to explode
Giraldi, 5/2/07 (Philip, former US CIA officer, "A High Price to Pay for Ignorance," http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=10900)
Poor intelligence also ...aircraft carrier
Super spike causes global depression
Douthwaite '03
(Richard, "Oil and the Irish Economy", http://www.constructireland.ie/articles/0210douthwaite.php)
In April, the ...a barrel again
Bearden
Turkish Daily News, 07 (2/2, "US-IRAN TENSIONS MIGHT LEAD TO WAR", lexis)
Citing Iranian involvement ...large confrontation
War with Iran would increase global terrorism and destroy the global economy
Cirincione and Grotto, 07 - Vice President for National Security of the Center for American Progress AND Senior National Security Analyst of the Center for American Progress (Joseph and Andrew, Contain and Engage: A New Strategy for Resolving the Nuclear Crisis with Iran, 2/28, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/02/pdf/iran_report.pdf)
Iran Would Retaliate
There would also ...combat fitness
Law of the Sea key to the war on terror—all your turns are wrong.
John Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State, Testimony Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 9/27/2007. www.state.gov/s/d/2007/92921.htm.
Myth: The Convention ...cooperative partners
LOST accession vital to protect oceanic biodiversity.
Brent Wagner and Philip Lofrumento, Research Assistant and Intern in Maritime Studies at CSI, 1999. The Washington Quarterly, Summer, Lexis.
Last but not least...environmental groups
Ratification of the treaty is crucial to hegemony to deter Russian influence in the region
CHOSSUDOVSKY, ECONOMICS PROFESSOR AT UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, 08-20 [Michael, "North American Integration and the Militarization of the Arctic", CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON GLOBALIZATION, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6586]
The Battle for the Arctic
...through unchallenged
EU Soft power 1nc: Promoting EU health assistance to Africa is vital to effective EU foreign policy – this is vital to global environmental protection, terrorism, and disease prevention
Owen, 06 - Chair, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, and adjunct professor of public health, University of Sydney (John, Health and Conflict Prevention, ed: Andrew Melbourn, http://www.madariaga.org/download2.asp?file=Anna%20Lindh%202006.pdf)
There is a need… modern foreign policy.
The plan will collapse EU foreign policy – anti-Americanism and foreign assistance are the glue that holds the EU together and attempts to boost the U.S. image will destroy the EU as an effective global model
Melvin, 05 (Don, Austin American-Statesman, 5/15, “The United States of Europe”, lexis)
* Europe, with its…foreign policy, he said
The EU model of governance is vital to forming transnational linkages between states – this de-emphasizes the need for military force as a solution to conflict
Rifkin, 04 - founder and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends (Jeremy, The Utne Reader, Sept/Oct, "The European Dream" http://www.itssd.org/Issues/EuropeanDream.pdf
While the American spirit… welfare of the planet.
Enhancing transnationalism will transform global political divisions and prevents global nuclear war
Seita, 97 (Alex, Professor of law at Albany Law School of Union University, 30 Cornell Int'l L.J. 429, lexis)
Because globalization… the risk of nuclear war.
Warming 1nc Impact: EU soft power is key to solve global warming.
Alem, 06 - Ambassador of the Mission of Morocco to the EU (Menouar, DEFINING EUROPE’S SOFT POWER, 25/04/2006 http://www.friendsofeurope.org/Portals/6/Documents/Reports/SOD%20CC%20on%20Soft%20Power%2025-04-06.pdf)
However, Europe, as… tackling climate change."
Warming will trigger climatic oscillations that kill billions and collapse the global economy
Milbrath, 1994 – Director of Research Program in Environment and Society at SUNY-Buffalo [Lester W., “Climate and chaos: Societal impacts of sudden weather shifts,” The Futurist, May/Jun, ProQuest]
The most-probable… a house of cards.
Balkans 1nc Impact: EU soft power is vital to Balkan stability
Carl Bildt, prime minister of Sweden 91-94, Financial Times: 1 June 2005 ” Europe must keep its soft power” http://www.cer.org.uk/articles/bildt_ft_1june05.html
Yet, in recent years… the EU has caused.
Balkan instability spreads throughout Europe – the impact is WWIII
Paris in ’02 (Roland, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at University of Colorado, Political Science Quarterly, “Kosovo and the metaphor war”, Volume 117, Issue 3, Fall, Proquest)
At this early stage in…, before it is too late.
This causes nuclear escalation
Glaser, 1993 (Charles, professor of public policy studies at the University of Chicago, International Security, Summer, ebsco)
The ending of… the American homeland.
2nc Cards
Environment 2nc: EU soft power is vital to global environmental protection – it is modeled globally
Islam, 07 (Shada, The Business Times Singapore, 10/16, “EU can be a role model - once it sorts out reforms”, lexis)
But Europe's 'soft power'… and safeguarding the environment.
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