- John Ruggie
John Gerard Ruggie (b.
October 18 ,1944 ) is the Evron andJeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs, and Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, at theKennedy School of Government ,Harvard University . Since 2005, Ruggie has served as theUnited Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.He was born in
Graz, Austria , son of Josef and Margaret Ruggie, and moved to the United States in 1967. He married Mary Zacharuk in 1965, with whom he has one son.He has been Dean of
Columbia University 's School of International and Public Affairs, where he taught for many years; he has also taught at theUniversity of California 's Berkeley and San Diego campuses and directed the UC systemwide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.Ruggie is widely considered to be one of his generation's most influential political scientists, especially within international relations. He has, for instance, created the term
embedded liberalism to explain the post World War II international economic system among western capitalistic states.A fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences , Ruggie is a recipient of the International Studies Association's Distinguished Scholar Award and theAmerican Political Science Association 'sHubert Humphrey Award for outstanding public service by apolitical scientist . He is also a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.From 1997 to 2001, he was Assistant Secretary-General and chief advisor for strategic planning to
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan .Ruggie has a BA in politics and history from
McMaster University in Canada; a PhD in political science from theUniversity of California , Berkeley; and aDoctor of Laws (honoris causa) from McMaster.ee also
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International relations theory
*Constructivism in international relations External links
* [http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/johnruggie/index.html] John Ruggie's personal website
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