International Organizations and Diplomacy

Week 4: The United Nations and its challenges

The goal of this teaching unit is to better understand the role of the UN in the 21st century.

Each student is supposed to:

- check his/her knowledge on the UN through a UN quiz (see the hand-out in the Study Materials in the IS)

- read the assigned reading: Mingst, Karen A., Margaret P. Karns and Alynna J. Lyon. 2016. The United Nations in the 21st Century. London and New York: Routledge (see the Study Materials in the IS)

- think through several key dilemmas that the UN is facing in the 21st century (see the Powerpoint presentation in the Study Materials in the IS)