A solid understanding of the UN's framework is essential for a successful Model UN experience. Use these resources to explore the UN's structure, operations, key documents, and research tools.
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Explore these key tools for accessing official UN documents, voting records, speeches, and more. These resources are essential for understanding Hungary’s role in the UN and conducting your Model UN research.
Use these databases to explore detailed statistics, treaties, and global development indicators that can enhance your Model UN research.
To succeed in Model UN, it’s essential to understand how the United Nations operates and its role in global governance. The resources on this page provide a broad overview of the UN’s structure and history.
Basic Facts about the United Nations
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This comprehensive handbook explains the structure of the United Nations, how the Organization works, the main issues it addresses and its importance for people everywhere. In addition to setting out the various roles played by principle UN organs, this book documents the Organization's contributions to international peace, economic and social development, human rights, and international law.
The Essential UN
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As the world's only truly universal global organization, the United Nations has become the foremost forum to address issues that transcend national boundaries and cannot be resolved by any one country acting alone. This authoritative reference provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of the work of the UN in key areas of international peace and security, economic and social development, human rights, and humanitarian action.
An Insider's Guide to the UN
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In this third edition, prominent news correspondent Linda Fasulo updates and revises her lively, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to the United Nations, including candid insights from US and UN diplomats and officials as well as experts. Fasulo's popular book carefully describes the UN system while covering issues as diverse as terrorism, peacekeeping, climate change, R2P (responsibility to protect), and sustainable development. "Linda Fasulo's book will become the indispensable source on the United Nations for everyone from students to diplomats. I keep it handy on my desk."--Joseph S. Nye, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. "No one knows the big picture and inner workings of the UN better than Linda Fasulo. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in international affairs."--Tom Brokaw, NBC News
The No-Nonsense Guide to the United Nations
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In the first book to distill the entire history of the United Nations into one accessible volume, Black explains how this complex organisation works and explores its successes, failings and current limitations. It includes the UN's creation and early history; how it is structured and whether it is well constituted in its functions. Black considers possibilities for reform to make it more democratic, effective and fit for purpose.
The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction
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The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction provides a brief history of the United Nations (UN), before examining its successes and failures as a guardian of international peace and security, as a promoter of human rights, as a protector of international law, and as an engineer of socio-economic development. The UN's various arms and organizations, such as UNESCO and UNICEF, are discussed along with a critical overview of the UN Security Council's involvement in recent crises in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Libya, and Syria. Regardless of its obstacles, the UN is likely to survive for the foreseeable future, but it must confront new challenges in a rapidly changing world.
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