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John Gerard Ruggie (born October 18, 1944) is the Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane Kirkpatrick

Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick was an United States Ambassadors from the United States and an ardent anticommunist. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign relations of the United States adviser in his United States presidential election, 1980 and later in his Cabinet, the longtime Democratic Party -turned-Republican Party was nominated as the U...
 Professor of International Affairs, and former Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
. Since 2005, Ruggie has served as the United Nations
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
 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.






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John Gerard Ruggie (born October 18, 1944) is the Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane Kirkpatrick

Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick was an United States Ambassadors from the United States and an ardent anticommunist. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign relations of the United States adviser in his United States presidential election, 1980 and later in his Cabinet, the longtime Democratic Party -turned-Republican Party was nominated as the U...
 Professor of International Affairs, and former Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
. Since 2005, Ruggie has served as the United Nations
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
 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
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
's School of International and Public Affairs, where he taught for many years; he has also taught at the University of California
University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges s...
'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
Embedded liberalism

The term embedded liberalism refers to the economic system which dominated worldwide from the end of World War II to the 1970s. The term itself is credited to John Ruggie, an American political scientist....
 to explain the post World War II international economic system among western capitalistic states.

A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning. It serves as a nationwide honor society for the United States....
, Ruggie is a recipient of the International Studies Association's Distinguished Scholar Award and the American Political Science Association
American Political Science Association

The American Political Science Association is an professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903, it publishes three academic journals ....
's Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey

Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. was the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, serving under President Lyndon B....
 Award for outstanding public service by a political 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
United Nations Secretary-General

The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the principal organs of the United Nations. The Secretary-General also acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the United Nations....
 Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan, Order of St Michael and St George is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh United Nations Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 1 January 2007....
.

Ruggie has a BA
Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin language Artium Baccalaureus, is an Undergraduate education bachelor's degree awarded for either a course or a program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
 in politics and history from McMaster University
McMaster University

McMaster University is a research-intensive university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with an enrollment of 20,600 full-time undergraduate students and 2,901 postgraduate students in 2007-08....
 in Canada; a PhD
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
 in political science from the University of California
University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges s...
, Berkeley; and a Doctor of Laws
Doctor of Laws

Doctor of Laws is a doctorate-level academic degree in law. What follows is a country-by-country analysis of earned doctorates in law, which are the most analogous to the concept of the LL.D....
 (honoris causa
Honorary degree

An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa is an academic degree for which a university has waived the usual requirements . The degree itself is typically a doctorate or, less commonly, a master's degree, and may be awarded to someone who has no prior connection with the institution in question....
) from McMaster.

See also

  • International relations theory
    International relations theory

    International relations theory attempts to provide a Model upon which international relations can be analyzed. Each theory is reductive and essentialist to different degrees, relying on different sets of assumptions respectively....
  • Constructivism in international relations
    Constructivism in international relations

    In the discipline of international relations, Constructivist epistemology is the application of constructivist ontology to the study of world affairs....


External links

  • John Ruggie's personal website