Jean-Marie Guéhenno
Jean-Marie Guéhenno (born October 30, 1949 in Paris ) is a French diplomat and political scientist.
Life
Jean-Marie Guéhenno headed the Political Planning Office of the French Foreign Ministry and was appointed Ambassador of the Permanent Council of the Western European Union in London. At the height of his career he was Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations from 2000 to 2008 with responsibility for Peacekeeping Missions. He is still considered an expert on foreign policy issues, including as Associate Director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University . From 1998 to 2000 he was President of the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN).
Jean-Marie Guéhenno has been Chairman of the Board of the Swiss Center for Humanitarian Dialogue since 2010 . In March 2012 he was appointed Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for the UN Observer Mission in Syria (UNSMIS).
Since September 2014 he has been President and Managing Director of the International Crisis Group .
In Germany he made a name for himself above all with his work The End of Democracy (orig. La fin de la démocratie ). In provocative theses on the “end of the nation”, “end of politics” or the “Lebanization of the world”, this questioned the democratic development at the end of the 20th century.
Awards
- Officer of the French Legion of Honor
- Bearer of the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fonts
- La fin de la democratie , Flammarion, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-08-081322-6 ; German: The end of democracy . Munich, dtv, 1996 ISBN 3-423-30554-1
- L'avenir de la liberté - La démocratie dans la mondialisation (“The future of freedom - democracy and globalization”). Paris, Flammarion 1999, ISBN 2-08-211579-8
- Jocelyn Coulon, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Lucien Manokou, Catherine Délice: Guide du maintien de la paix . Athéna éditions, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-922865-37-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean-Marie Guéhenno in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- UN / Biography (English) accessed on May 29, 2011
- Jean-Marie Guéhenno: EU defense policy after Brexit: German caution and French determination
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the message on un.org .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guéhenno, Jean-Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French political scientist and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |