"recurring debate" is a perfectly acceptable phrase that can be used in written English.
You can use it whenever a certain topic or argument has been discussed multiple times over time. For example, "The impact of technology on the environment has been a recurring debate for many years."
It amplifies an important, recurring debate about whether law students should be passing judgment on our field's scholarship.
A recurring debate is whether large carnivores can be conserved in human used landscapes (land sharing) or whether they require specially designated areas (land sparing).
Scheduling remains an issue at all the Grand Slam tournaments, but there has been a recurring debate at Wimbledon about gender equity.
Even by the lax standards of Washington political rhetoric, the recurring debate over military tribunals stands out as especially unmoored from reality.
Republicans portrayed the Obama administration's handling of the case in the criminal justice system as endangering national security, setting the template for a recurring debate.
Findings from the study, which Dee co-authored with Hans Henrik Sievertsen of the Danish National Centre for Social Research, could help parents in the recurring debate over the pros and cons of a later school entry.
The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization.
In American Pendulum, Christopher Hemmer examines America's grand strategic choices between 1914 and 2014 using four recurring debates in American foreign policy as lenses.
"American Pendulumdiscusses US foreign policy by examining the recurring debates that shape the discourse surrounding America's role in the international system.
IN the eternally recurring debates about whether some rival great power will knock the United States off its global perch, there has always been one excellent reason to bet on a second American century: We have more babies than the competition.
Christopher Hemmer makes an important contribution to the literature by contextualizing recurring debates about American grand strategy about unilateralism versus multilateralism; the role of values in U.S. grand strategy; the question of demarcating America's security frontiers and showing how past debates about these questions illuminate the contemporary debate about American grand strategy.
