The debate community generates a lot of subject specific research each year and after each topic is finished, the files are shelved or recyled to make room for the next topic. There has been talk in the past about finding a use for that research outside of debate and it looks like someone has finally done it.
Picket Fence Memories has published a book called Up For Debate: U.S. Foreign Policy Towards the Greater Horn of Africa which is written by eight college students based on the arguments they researched and wrote for the 2007 NFA-LD topic.
Up For Debate provides eight policy recommendations for U.S. Foreign Policy towards the Greater Horn of Africa in the areas of economic development, human rights protection and public health.
What is unique about this volume is that all the authors are college students who debated this topic during the 2007 academic year. Ranging from issues of wildlife trafficking, malaria, food aid and economic subsidies, each chapter presents the reader with the pressing problems facing the Greater Horn of Africa, a realistic policy proposal, and reasons why that proposal has a propensity to solve the issue.
The book is $14.99 plus $2.95 for shipping and handling.
[via Global Debate Blog]
