John Ruggie
John Gerard Ruggie (born October 18, 1944 in Graz , † September 16, 2021 ) was an American political scientist of Austrian origin. He was UN Deputy Secretary General and UN Special Envoy .
Life
Ruggie was born in 1944 as the son of Josef and Margaret Ruggie in Graz, Styria , before he emigrated to the United States with his parents. He completed his bachelor's degree (political science and history) at the Canadian McMaster University ; at the University of California at Berkeley , he passed his master's degree (political science). There he received his Ph.D. in 1974. PhD.
His academic career took him to Columbia University , where he headed the Institute for International Relations . He later taught as a professor at Columbia University, the University of California at San Diego, and Harvard University . He was one of the leading theorists in the political science discipline of international relations and was involved in the formulation of neoliberal institutionalism and regime theory .
From 1997 to 2001, Ruggie was UN Deputy Secretary-General, UN Special Envoy and Kofi Annan's chief adviser on strategic planning matters. In 1999 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
From 2005 to 2011, Ruggie was the UN special envoy on business and human rights. His mandate included the preparation of reports on the human rights accountability of multinational corporations for the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The Ruggie Report, presented in December 2008, provided an overview of the debate and existing initiatives and suggested possible solutions.
In 2011, he presented the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the UN Human Rights Council, which the Council adopted in 2011. The 31 guiding principles based on the developed by Ruggie since 2008 neck protection, respect, remedy (protect, respect and remedy) on three pillars: to protect their own territory from encroachment by companies in human rights state law duty inhabitants (state duty to protect) , the political expectation that companies respect human rights (corporate responsibility to respect human rights) and the access of those affected to complaint procedures and effective legal protection in cases of human rights violations by companies (access to remedy) .
Ruggie died in September 2021 at the age of 76. He left a wife and son.
Web links
- John Ruggie's website
- Ruggie, John Gerard , Personal Lexicon for International Relations Virtual (PIBv), Institute for Social Sciences, Technical University of Braunschweig , edited by Ulrich Menzel .
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://shiftproject.org/in-memory-of-john-g-ruggie/
- ↑ Biographical information is based on: Ruggie, John Gerard ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Personal Lexicon for International Relations Virtual (PIBv), Institute for Social Sciences, Technical University of Braunschweig
- ↑ Jochen von Bernstorff : The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A comment from an international law perspective. UNESCO, November 2012, accessed March 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Jochen von Bernstorff: The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A comment from an international law perspective. UNESCO, November 2012, accessed March 30, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruggie, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ruggie, John Gerard |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American political scientist |
| BIRTH DATE | October 18, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz , Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 2021 |