Background
Ruggie, John Gerard was born on October 18, 1944 in Graz, Austria. Came to the United States, 1967. Son of Josef and Margaret (Macic) Ruggie.
(Constructing the World Polity brings together in one coll...)
Constructing the World Polity brings together in one collection the theoretical ideas of one of the most influential International Relations theorists of our time. These essays, with a new introduction, and comprehensive connective sections, present Ruggie's ideas and their application to critical policy questions of the post-Cold War international order. Themes covered include: * International Organization. How the 'new Institutionalism' differs from the old. * The System of States. Explorations of political structure, social time, and territorial space in the world polity. * Making History. America and the issue of 'agency' in the post-Cold Was era. NATO and the future transatlantic security community. The United Nations and the collective use of force.
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(Constructing the World Polity brings together in one coll...)
Constructing the World Polity brings together in one collection the theoretical ideas of one of the most influential International Relations theorists of our time. These essays, with a new introduction, and comprehensive connective sections, present Ruggie's ideas and their application to critical policy questions of the post-Cold War international order. Themes covered include: * International Organization. How the 'new Institutionalism' differs from the old. * The System of States. Explorations of political structure, social time, and territorial space in the world polity. * Making History. America and the issue of 'agency' in the post-Cold Was era. NATO and the future transatlantic security community. The United Nations and the collective use of force.
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political scientist university professor
Ruggie, John Gerard was born on October 18, 1944 in Graz, Austria. Came to the United States, 1967. Son of Josef and Margaret (Macic) Ruggie.
Bachelor, McMaster University, 1967. Master of Arts, University California, Berkeley, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, 1974.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), McMaster University, 2000.
He is also an Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He was raised in Toronto, Canada. Ruggie has a Bachelor in politics and history from McMaster University in Canada.
He moved to the United States in 1967 to attend graduate school.
Academic appointments Ruggie taught for many years at Columbia University, eventually becoming Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs. He has also taught at the University of California"s Berkeley and San Diego campuses and directed the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
United Nations work He has twice served as a senior official in the United Nations. From 1997 to 2001, he served as United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning, a post created specifically for him by then Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
He was one of the principal architects of the United Nations Global Compact.
In 2005, he was appointed as the United Nations Secretary-General"s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights. He developed a set of principles, the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which have been adopted by multiple international agencies. Scholarly work Ruggie is widely considered to be one of his generation"s most influential political scientists.
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(Constructing the World Polity brings together in one coll...)
(Constructing the World Polity brings together in one coll...)
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He introduced the concepts of international regimes and epistemic communities into the international relations field Adapted from Karl Polanyi the term "embedded liberalism" to explain the post-World World War II international economic system among western capitalistic states. And was a major contributor to the emergence of the constructivist approach to international relations theorizing, which takes seriously the roles of norms, ideas, and identities, alongside other factors in determining international outcomes.
Fellow American Academy Arts Science. Member United Nations Association (board directors since 1985), Foreign Policy Association (board governors 1992-1995), Council Foreign Relations.
Married Mary Zacharuk, May 21, 1965. 1 child, Andreas John.