Debating Resources - a recommendation list

Dear debaters, coaches, my friends,

Taking advantage of my debater friends overseas who are currently
looking at ways to avoid doing their thesis or immersing in their
graduate study, I have used their brain power to generate this list of
books, websites, and a tv show that might help young debaters. Please
help adding to the list, and spreading it.

A few caveats:
a) This list is created by debaters from Europe and America, and so it
useful in an international context - that is to say, I'm afraid it
won't help much with Chinese domestic debates
b) The age group is senior high school and college junior debaters. My
advice to younger debaters would be to read the newspapers, the
occasional magazine
c) This is, obviously, not a compulsory list. I intend to phrase it
along the lines of 'these are books that might help young debaters'.
so in choosing books, I'm aware to pick those fairly accessible
(popular) ones so that you could find them at local or school library.


Public Speaking
- Lend me your Ears by Max Atkinson

General Ideas
- Ted.com – http://www.ted.com
- slate.com (for its comment pieces)
- Watch The West Wing
- Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
- Sex and Reason by Richard Posner

Political Philosophy
- Political Philosophy: A beginners’ guide for students and
politicians by Adam Swift
- An Introduction to Political Philosophy, In Defence of Political
Anarchism by Jonathan Wolff
- Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
- Models of Democracy by David Held
- Adam Smith, Michel Foucault for advanced students

Economics
- The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
- The Logic of Life by Tim Harford
- Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World / The Cash
Nexus by Niall Ferguson and Simon Prebble
- The Roaring Nineties by Joseph Stiglitz (and Globalisation and its
Discontents for advanced students)
- False Dawn by John Gray
- More Sex is Safer Sex, The Armchair Economist by Steven Landsburg
- some Hayek or Friedman (Capitalism and Freedom) for advanced students

Ethics
- Causing Death and Saving Lives by Jonathan Glover
- Three Methods of Ethics by Baron, Pettit & Slote
- Practical Ethics by Peter Singer

International Politics & Development
- Dead Aid is by Dambisa Moyo
- The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have
Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly
- Rise To Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 by Stephen E.
Ambrose & Douglas Brinkly
- The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
- The Writing On The Wall: China and The West In The 21st Century by Will Hutton
- How to spend $50 billion to make the world a better place by Bjorn Lomborg
- Open World: The Truth About Globalisation by Philippe Legrain
- The Spread of Nuclear Weapons by Sagan/Waltz
- We Did Nothing by Linda Polman
- US Foreign Policy Since 1945 by Alan Dobson and Steve Marsh
- reference: The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations

Terrorism
- No End To War: Terrorism In The Twenty First Century by Walter Laquer
- Lawless World by Phillipe Sands
- Isaac and Ishmael episode of The West Wing

Environment
- Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide To Global Warming by
Bjorn Lomborg

Science
- Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Statistics
- The Tiger That Isn’t by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot
- http://www.gapminder.org/

Law
- Justice, Legitimacy and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for
International Law
- How the Law Works by Gary Slapper


Best wishes,

Ella