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]