Supplemental Materials

The United Nations: Challenges and Change

The United Nations: Challenges and Change introduces students to the idea of "collective security," tracing the emergence of the League of Nations to the formation of the United Nations.

Online Resources from the Choices Program

Scholars Online
Scholars Online videos bring university scholars into high school classrooms. These videos are designed to supplement Choices printed curricula and are conveniently organized to enrich the student readings, lesson plans, and homework assignments provided in Choices printed material.

Zimbabwe in Crisis
This one day lesson helps students better understand the current political, economic, and health crisis in Zimbabwe. Readings explore the country’s past and the historical origins of the crisis. The lesson asks students to consider what role, if any, the international community should play in Zimbabwe, through the perspectives of a number of UN member countries.

Web Links

Council on Foreign Relations
Information from the Council on Foreign Relations on a wide range of international topics.

The United Nations
Official web site of the United Nations. Links to UN resolutions, reports, flow charts and Member State homepages.

U.S. Department of State
Information on U.S. government policies at the UN

U.S. Mission to the United Nations
Information on U.S. government policies at the UN

Books

Emmerij, Louis, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss. Ahead of the Curve?: UN Ideas and Global Change. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001). 280 pages.

Luck, Edward C. Mixed Messages: American Politics and International Organization, 1919-1999. (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999). 374 pages.

Moore, Jonathan. Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention. (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999). 336 pages.

Power, Samantha. “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide. (New York: Basic Books, 2002). 610 pages.

Weiss, Thomas G., David P. Forsythe, and Roger A. Coate. The United Nations and Changing World Politics. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2001). 334 pages.

NOTE: This is a selected list of resources focused on the topic of the curriculum unit, The United Nations: Challenges and Change. Additional resources will be added to this site as they become available.