As previously mentioned, the upcoming debate topic area (the exact wording of the topic won't be known for a while now) is democracy promotion in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Here is a link to the topic area paper that inspired this choice. If you want to debate this coming year, this would be a good place to start building your knowledge base:
Democracy Promotion in MENA (Middle East North Africa)
and here is the link to an older democracy promotion topic area paper that could also have useful info:
Older Democracy Promotion Paper
