2004 NMUN Conference
- 2004 Major UN System Activities of Interest to World Media
- Calendar prepared by the Strategic
Communications Division (DPI) (as of January 2004)
For the 2004 National Model United Nations Conference, UNSA has been assigned to represent NIGER in 8 committees and the International Court of Justice (ICJ)*. Those committees are listed below. By clicking on the committee, you will be directed to the committee's background guide at the NMUN website. The syllabus for the NMUN class can also be accessed by clicking on the following link. Students are also required to register for Government 297 in order to attend the conference.
Syllabus for Government 297: Model United Nations (HTML Format)
Committee Assignments and Background Guides
2. General Assembly 3rd Committee
3. Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
4. World Intellectual Property Organization
5. International Atomic Energy Agency
6. International Criminal Police Organization
7. Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
*International Court of Justice
Recommended Research Links:
Recommended Readings:**
Major reference works, collections, archives
Annual Report of the Secretary General on the Work of the Organization
Atherton, Alexine L. International Organizations. A Guide to information Sources. Book Tower, Detroit, Michigan, 1976
Index to the Proceedings of the Economic and Social Council
Index to the Proceedings of the General Assembly
Index to the Proceedings of the Security Council
Index to the resolutions of the Security Council
International Instruments of the United Nations: A Compilation of Agreements, Charters, Declarations,.
International Instruments related to the recention and Suppression of International Terrorism Principles, Proclamations, Protocols, and Treaties Adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations
Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council
Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs.
United Nations Juridical Yearbook
Yearbook of the United Nations
Yearbook of the United Nations, 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: The United Nations, 1997.
Yearbook of the United Nations
Yearbook of the International Law Commission
Yearbook of the International Court of Justice
International Labour Organization Yearbook
Yearbook on Human Rights
Scholarly Periodicals
American Journal of International Law
Columbia Journal of Transnational Law
Conflict Management and Peace Science (CMPS)
Current History
European Journal of International Relations(EJIR)
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Global Governance
Human Rights Quarterly
India Quarterly (New Delhi)
Indian Journal of International Law (New Delhi)
International Affairs (London)
International Conciliation (1907-72)
International Journal(IJ) Canada
International Journal (Toronto)
International Organization
International Peacekeeping
International Review of the Red Cross
International Security (IS) Harvard University
International Social Science Journal
International Peacekeeping (London)
International Relations (London)
International Social Science Journal
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Journal of International Affairs
Journal of Peace research (Oslo)
Journal of World-Systems Research(JWSR)
Millennium (Colorado)
Natural Resources Forum
Orbis: A Quarterly of World Affairs
Pakistan Horizon (Karachi)
Population and Development Review
Population Bulletin of the United Nations
Review of International Political Economy (RIPE)( UK)
Review of International Studies (RIS)
Security Studies
The Journal of Humanitarian Assistance
Third World Quarterly
World Development
World Politics
Zeitschrift fuerIinternationale Beziehungen (Germany)
Origins, Establishment and Evolution of the UN System
Archer, Clive. International Organization, 3rd ed. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.
Claude, Inis, Jr.. Swords into Plowshares. The Problems and Progress of International Organizations, 4th ed. New York: Random House, 1971.
Diehl, Paul F. (ed.). The Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in an Interdependent World. Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner, 1992.
Documents of the United Nations Conference on International Organization. London and New York: United Nations Information Organization, 1945-1946 .
Franck, Thomas M. Nation Against Nation: What Happened to the UN Dream and What the US Can Do About It. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Glassner, Martin Ira (ed). The United Nations at Work. West Port, Conn.: Praeger, 1998.
Goodrich, Leland, Edward Hambro, and Anne Patricia Simon. Charter of the United Nations. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.
Goodrich, Leland and Edvard Hambro. Charter of the United Nations: Commentary and Documents. Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1949.
Gordenker, Leon. Thinking About the United Nations System. Hanover, N.H.: Academic Council on the United Nations, 1990.
Hilderbrand, Robert C. Dumbarton Oaks: The Origins of the United Nations and the Search for Postwar Security. Chapel Hill: University of Carolina Press, 1997.
Hoopes, Townsend and Douglas Brinkley. FDR and the Creation of the UN. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.
Huntington, Samuel P. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. Oklahoma City: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
Luard, Evan. A History of the United Nations: The Years of Western Domination. London: Macmillan, 1982.
May, Ernest R. and Angeliki E. Laiou (eds.). The Dumbarton Oaks Conversations and the United Nations 1944-1994. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1998.
Meisler, Stanley. United
Nations: The First Fifty Years. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997.
Mingst, Karen A, M. P. Karns, and G. A. Lopez (eds). United Nations in the Post-Cold War Era. Boulder Colo.: Westview Press, 1999.
Righter, Rosemary. Utopia Lost � The United Nations and World Order. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1995.
Roberts, Adam and Benedict Kingsbury (eds.). United Nations, Divided World. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Russell, Ruth (assisted by Jeanette E. Muther). A History of the United Nations Charter. Washington, DC.: Brookings Institution, 1958.
Ryan, Stephen. The United Nations and International Politics, (Studies in Contemporary History). New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Schlesinger, Stephen. Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Pr5ess, 2003.
Taylor, Paul and A.J.R. Groom (eds). The United Nations at the Millennium: the Principle Organs. London; New York: Continuum, 2000.
Weiss, Thomas G., D. P. Forsythe, and R. A Coate. United Nations: Changing World Politics. 3rd Ed. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000.
Wilcox, Francis O. and Carl M. Marcy. Proposals for Changes in the United Naitons. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1955.
The Changing International Setting: The Cold War, Decolonization, the Post Cold War, Globalization
Claude, Inis, The Changing United Nations. New York: Random House, 1968.
Crabb, C.V.D. The Elephants and the Grass: A Study of Non-Alignment. New York: Praeger, 1965.
Emerson, Rupert. From Empire to Nation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960.
Grimal, Henri. Decolonization: The British, French, Dutch, and Belgian Empires, 1919-1963. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1978.
Gurr, Ted Robert. Minorities at Risk: A Global View of Ethnopolitical Conflicts. Washington D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1993.
Hirst, Paul; Globalization in Question: the International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance. Cambridge, Mass.: Polity Press, 1999.
Hoogvelt, Ankie. Globalization and the Postcolonial World: The New Political Economy of Development. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Huntington, Samuel P. The Third Wave. Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. Norman: University of Oklahona Press, 1991.
Hutchinson, John and Anthony D. Smith (eds.). Ethnicity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Jackson, Robert H.. Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Jacobson, Harold K. Networks of Interdependence: International Organizations and the Global Political System. 2nd edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
Martin, L. W. (ed.). Neutralism and Nonalignment: The New States in the World. New York: Praeger, 1962.
Mearsheimer, John J. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001.
Morgenthau, Hans J. (Revised by Kenneth W. Thompson) Politics Among Nations. The Struggle for power and peace. Sixth edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1985.
Rodrik, Dani. Has Globalization Gone Too Far? Washington D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1997.
Schaeffer, Robert K. Understanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, Economic and Environmental Change. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.
Seligson, Mitchell A. and John T. Passe-Smith. Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.
Sellers, Mortimer (ed.). The New World Order: Sovereignty, Human Rights, and the Self-Determination of Peoples. Oxford; Washington D.C.: Berg, 1996.
Sen, Amartya Kumar; Development as Freedom. Oxford University Press, London, 2001
Stiglitz, Joseph E.. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.
Vaubel, Roland and Thomas D. Willett. The Political Economy of International Organizations: A Public Choice Approach. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991.
Willetts, Peter. The Non-Aligned Movement: The Origins of the Third World Alliance. London: Pinter, 1978.
The views from the states
Alger, Chadwick F., Gene Lyons, and John Trent. The United Nations System: The Policies of Member States. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1995.
Chakraborty, Bimal. The United Nations and the Third World: Shifting Paradigms. New Dehli: Tata McGraw-Hill, 1977.
Dulles, John Foster. �The General Assembly.� Foreign Affairs (October 1945): 165-175.
Ferguson, Tyrone. The Third World and Decision-Making in the International Monetary Fund: The Quest for Full and Effective Participation. London: Pinter Publishers, 1988.
Gati, Tobi Trister (ed). The US, the UN and the Management of Global Change, New York: New York University Press, 1983.
Grant, Cedric, �Equity in International Relations: A Third World Perspective,� International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), 71.3, Ethics, the Environment and the Changing International Order. (July 1995): 567-587.
Gregg, Robert W. About Face? The United States and the United Nations. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Riener, 1993.
Hasan, Sarwar. Pakistan and the United Nations. New York: Manhattan Publishing Company, 1960.
Jonah, James O.C. Differing State Perspectives on the United Nations in the Post-Cold War Era. John W. Holmes Memorial Lecture. Reports and Papers, 1993, No. 4. Providence, R.I.: Academic Council on the United Nations System, 1993.
Karefa-Smart, John. �Africa and the United Nations.� International Organization, 19.3 The United Nations: Accomplishments and Prospects. (1965): 764-773.
Karns, Margaret P. and Karen A. Mingst (eds.). The United States and Multilateral Institutions: Patterns of Changing Instrumentality and Influence. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990.
Kaufman, Natalie Hevener. Human Rights Treaties and the Senate: A History of Opposition. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Pr4ess, 1990.
Kay, David. The New Nations in the United Nations 1960-1967. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.
Kondapi, C. �Indian Opinion of the United Nations,� International Organization, 5.4 (1951): 709-721.
Krause, Keith, and W. A.Knight. State, Society, and the UN System. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1995.
Luck, Edward. Mixed Messages: American Politics and International Organization, 1919-1999. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1999.
Morrell, James B. The Law of the Sea: An Historical Analysis of the 1982 Treaty and Its rejection by the United States. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co., 1991.
Riggs, Robert E. Politics in the United Nations. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958. Reprinted by Greenwood Press, 1984.
Sauvant, Karl P. The Group of 77: Evolution, Structure, Organization. New York: Oceana Publications, 1981.
Shah, Manubhai. Developing Countries and UNCTAD. Bombay: Vora, 1968.
United Nations Institute for Training and Research. A New International Economic Order: Selected Documents 1945-1973. New York: UNITAR, 1976 2 vols.
Pew Center for the People & the Press. Views of a Changing World. Washington: The Pew Center for the People & the Press, 2003.
Wood, Bryce and Minerva Morales M. �Latin America and the United Nations.� International Organization, 19.3. The United Nations: Accomplishments and Prospects. (Summer 1965): 714-727.
Zammit-Cutajar, Michael (ed.). UNCTAD and the North-South Dialogue: The First Twenty-Five Years. London: Pergamon, 1985.
The Legal, institutional and financial framework
Bailey, Sidney D., and S. Daws. The Procedure of the UN Security Council. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
Beigbeder, Yves. The Internal Management of United Nations Organizations: The Long Quest For Reform. New York: St. Martin�s Press, 1997.
Haviland, Henry Field. The Political Role of the General Assembly. New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1951.
Gregg, Robert, W. �The UN Regional Commissions and Integration in the Underdeveloped Regions.� International Organization 20.2 (1966): 208-232.
Haas, Peter M., Robert O. Keohane and Marc A. Levy (eds.). Institutions for the Earth: Sources of Effective International Environmental Institutions. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993.
Hill, Martin. The United Nations System: Coordinating Its Economic and Social Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
Malone, David. �Eyes on the Prize: The Quest for Nonpermanent Seats on the UN Security Council.� Global Governance 6.1 (2000)
Malone, David. Decision-Making in the UN Security Council: The Case of Haiti, 1990-1997. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Marks, Edward. Complex Emergencies: Bureaucratic Arrangements in the UN Secretariat. Washington D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1996.
Meron, Theodor. The United Nations Secretariat: The Rules and Practice. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1977.
Mills, Susan R. The Financing of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations. Occasional Paper No. 3. New York: International Peace Academy, 1989.
Mouritzen, Hans. The International Civil Service: A Study of Bureaucracy: International Organizations. Aldershot, Eng.: Dartmouth, 1990.
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Russett, Bruce (ed). The Once and Future Security Council. New York: St. Martin�s Press, 1997.
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Taylor, Paul and A.J. R. Groom (eds.). The United Nations at the Millennium. Principal Organs. London and New York: Continuum, 2000.
Weiss, Thomas G. International Bureaucracy: An Analysis of the Operation of Functional and Global International Secretariats. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1975.
Whitman, J. and D. Pocock (eds.). After Rwanda: The Coordination of United Nations Humanitarian Assistance. New York: St. Martin�s Press, 1996.
Wightman, David. Toward Economic Cooperation in Asia: The United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1963.
Decision-making
Alker, Hayward R., and B. M. Russett. World Politics in the General Assembly. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1965.
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Chasek. Pamela. Earth Negotiations. Analyzing Thirty Years of Environmental Diplomacy. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2001.
Childers, Erskine (ed.). Challenges to the United Nations: Building a Safer World. New York: St. Martin�s Press, 1995.
Cox, Robert W., and H. K. Jacobson (eds.). The Anatomy of Influence: Decision-Making in International Organization. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1973.
Cooper, Andrew F., J. English, and R. Thakur (eds.). Enhancing Global Governance; Towards a New Diplomacy? Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2002.
Deng, Francis M. and I William Zartman. Conflict Resolution in Africa. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1991.
Jacobson, Harold K. Networks of Interdependence. 2d ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
Karns, Margaret P. �Ad Hoc Multilateral Diplomacy: the United States, the Contact Group, and Namibia, � International Organization 41.1 (1987).
Kaufman, Johan. Conference Diplomacy: An Introductory Analysis. 2nd rev. ed. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1988.
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Prantl, Jochen and Jean Krasno. Informal Ad Hoc Groupings of States and the Workings of the United Nations. Academic Council on the United Nations System. International Relations Studies and the United Nations Occasional Papers No. 3, 2002.
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** Compiled by Professor Jacque Fomerand
This site will soon feature more information about the 2004 NMUN Conference. We will also post research links which may help students sitting on these committees research for their Position Papers and preparation.
Please note that all position papers are due in the last week of Febuary.