John Gerard Ruggie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1099622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Gerard Ruggie |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Gerard |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruggie |
| SIGNATURE | RUGGIE J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7679-5178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3828 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Ten Years After: From UN Guiding Principles to Multi-Fiduciary Obligations
For the first time in four decades, leading business associations, corporations, and the corporate law and governance community are seriously debating moving beyond shareholder primacy toward some form of ‘stakeholder governance. But the how question unveils significant differences of opinion as well as difficulties. We focus on a pathway that complements the ambition of stakeholder governance, but which current reform proposals have largely over…
Multinationals as global institution: Power, authority and relative autonomy
This article aims to inform the long‐standing and unresolved debate between voluntary corporate social responsibility and initiatives to impose binding legal obligations on multinational enterprises. The two approaches share a common feature: neither can fully specify its own scope conditions, that is, how much of the people and planet agenda either can expect to deliver. The reason they share this feature is also the same: neither is based on a …
International organization: A state of the art on an art of the state
International organization as a field of study has had its ups and downs throughout the post-World War II era and throughout this century for that matter. In the interwar period, the fate of the field reflected the fate of the world it studied: a creative burst of work on “international government” after 1919, followed by a period of more cautious reassessment approaching the 1930s, and a gradual decline into irrelevance if not obscurity thereaft…
International regimes, transactions, and change: Embedded liberalism in the postwar economic order
A philosopher is someone who goes into a dark room at night, to look for a black cat that isn't there.A theologian does the same thing, but comes out claiming he found the cat.Nick Philips, "The Case of the Naked Quark," TWA Ambassador Magazine
The Concept of ‘Due Diligence’ in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A Reply to Jonathan Bonnitcha and Robert McCorquodale
Global Governance and “New Governance Theory: Lessons from Business and Human Rights
ON 16 JUNE 2011, THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSED the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights that I developed over the course of the previous six years in my role as the Secretary-General's special representative for business and human rights. (1) The journey involved nearly fifty international consultations on five continents, numerous site visits to individual firms and local communities, extensive research, and pilot p…
Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises: Guiding Principles on Business and Human Right…
Business and Human Rights: The Evolving International Agenda
The state-based system of global governance has struggled for more than a generation to adjust to the expanding reach and growing influence of transnational corporations. The United Nations first attempted to establish binding international rules to govern the activities of transnationals in the 1970s. That endeavor was initiated by developing countries as part of a broader regulatory program with redistributive aims known as the New Internationa…
Transformations in World Politics: The Intellectual Contributions of Ernst B. Haas
For half a century, Ernst B. Haas was an extraordinarily prolific contributor to theoretical debates in international relations. His work focused on the question of continuity and transformation in the system of states. His substantive writings are extremely diverse and can be difficult, so no overall appreciation has ever been attempted. This essay pulls together the major strands of Haas' theoretical work into a coherent whole and seeks to make…
The Right Norms
Reconstituting the Global Public Domain - Issues, Actors, and Practices
This article draws attention to a fundamental reconstitution of the global public domain - away from one that for more than three centuries equated the 'public' in international politics with sovereign states and the interstate realm to one in which the very system of states is becoming embedded in a broader and deepening transnational arena concerned with the production of global public goods. One concrete instance of this transformation is the …
The United Nations and Globalization: Patterns and Limits of Institutional Adaptation
The United has struggled with the challenges of globalization for several years, especially since the Asian financial crisis. It has paid particular attention the needs of developing countries, deemed least well equipped cope. All relevant parts of the UN system have been engaged, as well as the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization. In the process, the UN Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC) has gained new life--a…
Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalisation
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 …
Global_governance.net: The Global Compact as Learning Network
What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge
Social constructivism in international relations has come into its own during the past decade, not only as a metatheoretical critique of currently dominant neo-utilitarian approaches (neo-realism and neoliberal institutionalism) but increasingly in the form of detailed empirical findings and theoretical insights. Constructivism addresses many of the same issues addressed by neo-utilitarianism, though from a different vantage and, therefore, with …
Consolidating the European pillar: The key to Nato's future
The Past as Prologue? Interests, Identity, and American Foreign Policy
April 01 1997 The Past as Prologue? Interests, Identity, and American Foreign Policy John Gerard Ruggie John Gerard Ruggie John Gerard Ruggie is the Burgess Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Columbia University, where he served as Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs from 1991-96. His most recent books are Winning the Peace: America and World Order in the New Era (Columbia University Press, 1996), and I…
The Past as Prologue: Interests, Identity, and American Foreign Policy
Winning the Peace: America and World Order in the New Era
The UN and the collective use of force: Whither or whether
The end of the Cold War created new possibilities for UN peace operations, but they were not nearly so unlimited or unproblematic as the early post‐Cold War euphoria believed. After Somalia and Bosnia, many observers question whether any opportunity at all remains, but now the sense of limits is exaggerated. Indeed, some of the same muddled thinking that was responsible for the UN's undiscriminating military interventions in ‘grey area’ conflicts…
Winning the Peace: America and World Order in the New Era
At Home Abroad, Abroad at Home: International Liberalisation and Domestic Stability in the New World Economy
The two most enduring contemporaneous accounts of the inter-war period are E. H. Carr’s The Twenty Years’ Crisis and Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation. The perspectives from which the two authors wrote could barely have differed more. Carr is best remembered today for pulverizing the idealist foundations of liberal internationalism, and thereby preparing the ground for the postwar ascendancy of realist discourse in the academic study of int…
The False Premise of Realism
Peacekeeping and U. S. Interests
Third Try at World Order? America and Multilateralism after the Cold War
Times of change are also times of confusion. Words lose their familiar meaning, and our footing becomes unsure on what was previously firm terrain. Today, political leaders and commentators alike seek to grasp the new international role of the United States. Now is the unipolar moment, a triumphalist commentator crows. There is but one first-rate power and no prospect in the immediate future of any power to rival it.' But a senior U.S. foreign po…
International regimes, transactions, and change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order
The prevailing model of international economic regimes is strictly positivistic in its epistemological orientation and stresses the distribution of material power capabilities in its explanatory logic. It is inadequate to account for the current set of international economic regimes and for the differences between past and present regimes. The model elaborated here departs from the prevailing view in two respects, while adhering to it in a third.…
Territoriality and beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations
The concept of territoriality has been studied surprisingly little by students of international politics. Yet, territoriality most distinctively defines modernity in international politics, and changes in few other factors can so powerfully transform the modern world polity. This article seeks to frame the study of the possible transformation of modern territoriality by examining how that system of relations was instituted in the first place. The…
International organization: A State of the Art on an Art of the State
International organization as a field of study is where the action is. The analytical shifts leading up to the current preoccupation with international regimes have been both progressive and cumulative. And the field is pursuing its object of study in innovative ways that are bringing it closer to the theoretical core of more general international relations work. As we point out, however, the study of regimes as practiced today suffers from the f…
What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge
Social constructivism in international relations has come into its own during the past decade, not only as a metatheoretical critique of currently dominant neo-utilitarian approaches (neo-realism and neoliberal institutionalism) but increasingly in the form of detailed empirical findings and theoretical insights. Constructivism addresses many of the same issues addressed by neo-utilitarianism, though from a different vantage and, therefore, with …
Multilateralism: The Anatomy of an Institution
In 1989, peaceful change, which a leading realist theorist had declared a very low-probability event in international politics less than a decade before, accommodated the most fundamental geopolitical shift of the postwar era and perhaps of the entire twentieth century: the collapse of the Soviet East European empire and the attendant end of the cold war. Many factors were responsible for that shift. But there seems little doubt that multilateral…
Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity: Toward a Neorealist Synthesis
Kenneth Waltz's recent book, Theory of International Politics , is one of the most important contributions to international relations theory since his Man, the State and War . It picks up where the earlier work left off: with the structure of the international system serving as the basis for explaining a variety of international outcomes. The most profound and perhaps the most perplexing outcome Waltz attempts to explain is the lack of fundamenta…
Reconstituting the Global Public Domain - Issues, Actors, and Practices
This article draws attention to a fundamental reconstitution of the global public domain - away from one that for more than three centuries equated the 'public' in international politics with sovereign states and the interstate realm to one in which the very system of states is becoming embedded in a broader and deepening transnational arena concerned with the production of global public goods. One concrete instance of this transformation is the …
International responses to technology: Concepts and trends
With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, we are being told that on our “only one earth” we are, for the first time, living a single history. By this is meant that technological, ecological, political, economic, and social environments are becoming so globally enmeshed that changes taking place in one segment of international society will have consequential repercussions in all others. An equally frequent and no less vehement remonstration…
Multilateralism matters: The Theory and Praxis of an Institutional Form
Multinationals as global institution: Power, authority and relative autonomy
This article aims to inform the long‐standing and unresolved debate between voluntary corporate social responsibility and initiatives to impose binding legal obligations on multinational enterprises. The two approaches share a common feature: neither can fully specify its own scope conditions, that is, how much of the people and planet agenda either can expect to deliver. The reason they share this feature is also the same: neither is based on a …
Business and Human Rights: The Evolving International Agenda
The state-based system of global governance has struggled for more than a generation to adjust to the expanding reach and growing influence of transnational corporations. The United Nations first attempted to establish binding international rules to govern the activities of transnationals in the 1970s. That endeavor was initiated by developing countries as part of a broader regulatory program with redistributive aims known as the New Internationa…
Collective Goods and Future International Collaboration
Certain institutional changes in the advanced industrial societies are said to be leading toward postindustrial, if not postmodern, forms of sociopolitical organization. Scientific and technological developments are usually seen as the generating forces of such change, a major dimension of which is thought to be a growing pre-occupation with goods and services which are produced and/or purchased communally.There exists a parallel phenomenon in th…
Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises: Guiding Principles on Business and Human Right…
At Home Abroad, Abroad at Home: International Liberalisation and Domestic Stability in the New World Economy
The two most enduring contemporaneous accounts of the inter-war period are E. H. Carr’s The Twenty Years’ Crisis and Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation. The perspectives from which the two authors wrote could barely have differed more. Carr is best remembered today for pulverizing the idealist foundations of liberal internationalism, and thereby preparing the ground for the postwar ascendancy of realist discourse in the academic study of int…
Global_governance.net: The Global Compact as Learning Network
Wandering in the Void: Charting the U.N.'s New Strategic Role
domain of military activity?a vaguely defined no-mans-land lying somewhere between traditional peacekeeping and enforcement?for which it lacks any guiding operational concept. It has mere ly ratcheted up the traditional peace keeping mechanism in an attempt to respond to wholly new security chal lenges. The result is that the majority of the nearly 70,000 blue-helmeted peace keepers now out in the field serve in con texts for which peacekeeping w…
The Concept of ‘Due Diligence’ in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A Reply to Jonathan Bonnitcha and Robert McCorquodale
Transformations in World Politics: The Intellectual Contributions of Ernst B. Haas
For half a century, Ernst B. Haas was an extraordinarily prolific contributor to theoretical debates in international relations. His work focused on the question of continuity and transformation in the system of states. His substantive writings are extremely diverse and can be difficult, so no overall appreciation has ever been attempted. This essay pulls together the major strands of Haas' theoretical work into a coherent whole and seeks to make…
The United Nations and Globalization: Patterns and Limits of Institutional Adaptation
The United has struggled with the challenges of globalization for several years, especially since the Asian financial crisis. It has paid particular attention the needs of developing countries, deemed least well equipped cope. All relevant parts of the UN system have been engaged, as well as the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization. In the process, the UN Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC) has gained new life--a…
Winning the Peace: America and World Order in the New Era
Global Governance and “New Governance Theory: Lessons from Business and Human Rights
ON 16 JUNE 2011, THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSED the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights that I developed over the course of the previous six years in my role as the Secretary-General's special representative for business and human rights. (1) The journey involved nearly fifty international consultations on five continents, numerous site visits to individual firms and local communities, extensive research, and pilot p…
Territoriality and Who Is “US
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Contingencies, Constraints, and Collective Security: Perspectives on UN Involvement in International Disputes
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Third Try at World Order? America and Multilateralism after the Cold War
Times of change are also times of confusion. Words lose their familiar meaning, and our footing becomes unsure on what was previously firm terrain. Today, political leaders and commentators alike seek to grasp the new international role of the United States. Now is the unipolar moment, a triumphalist commentator crows. There is but one first-rate power and no prospect in the immediate future of any power to rival it.' But a senior U.S. foreign po…
The United States and the United Nations: Toward a New Realism
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Collective Goods and Future International Collaboration
Certain institutional changes in the advanced industrial societies are said to be leading toward postindustrial, if not postmodern, forms of sociopolitical organization. Scientific and technological developments are usually seen as the generating forces of such change, a major dimension of which is thought to be a growing pre-occupation with goods and services which are produced and/or purchased communally.There exists a parallel phenomenon in th…
Contingencies, Constraints, and Collective Security: Perspectives on UN Involvement in International Disputes
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International responses to technology: Concepts and trends
With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, we are being told that on our “only one earth” we are, for the first time, living a single history. By this is meant that technological, ecological, political, economic, and social environments are becoming so globally enmeshed that changes taking place in one segment of international society will have consequential repercussions in all others. An equally frequent and no less vehement remonstration…
The Poverty Curtain: Choices for the Third World
Journal Article The Poverty Curtain: Choices for the Third World Get access The Poverty Curtain: Choices for the Third World. By Mahbub ul Haq. New York: Columbia University Press. 1976. 247 pp. $15.60. John Gerard Ruggie John Gerard Ruggie 1University of California, Berkeley, and Chatham House Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 4, October 1977, Pages 647–649, https://d…
On the Problem of ‘the Global Problematique’: What Roles for International Organizations
Finding that the connotation of the term ‘the global problematique’ is vague and amorphous, the paper puts forth a working definition that takes into account the indivisibly related complex of processes and problems within the world system that is generated by the increasing scale of human activity, viewed in the context of planetary life-support systems. It then examines the pattern of activities of international organizations in response to ‘th…
The Politics of Money
Information Exchange and International Change: The Case of Infoterra
A political commentary on Cancún
What Message in the Medium of Information Systems
Journal Article What Message in the Medium of Information Systems? Get access Ernst B. Haas, Ernst B. Haas University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Gerard Ruggie John Gerard Ruggie Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 2, June 1982, Pages 190–219, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
International regimes, transactions, and change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order
The prevailing model of international economic regimes is strictly positivistic in its epistemological orientation and stresses the distribution of material power capabilities in its explanatory logic. It is inadequate to account for the current set of international economic regimes and for the differences between past and present regimes. The model elaborated here departs from the prevailing view in two respects, while adhering to it in a third.…
Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity: Toward a Neorealist Synthesis
Kenneth Waltz's recent book, Theory of International Politics , is one of the most important contributions to international relations theory since his Man, the State and War . It picks up where the earlier work left off: with the structure of the international system serving as the basis for explaining a variety of international outcomes. The most profound and perhaps the most perplexing outcome Waltz attempts to explain is the lack of fundamenta…
Power, Passions, and Purpose
The Antinomies of Interdependence: National Welfare and the International Division of Labor
Power, Passions, and Purpose: Prospects for North-South Negotiations
Power, Passions and Purpose: Prospects for North-South Negotiations
Journal Article Power, Passions and Purpose: Prospects for North-South Negotiations Get access Power, Passions and Purpose: Prospects for North-South Negotiations. Edited by JAGDISH N. BHAGWATI and JOHN GERARD RUGGIE. (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: The MIT Press, 1984. Pp. 337. £28.50 hardback, ^9-95 paperback.)Worlds Apart: Technology and North-South Relations in the Global Economy. By SAM COLE and IAN MILES. (Brighton: Wheatsheaf Books, …
The United States and the United Nations: Toward a New Realism
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International organization: A State of the Art on an Art of the State
International organization as a field of study is where the action is. The analytical shifts leading up to the current preoccupation with international regimes have been both progressive and cumulative. And the field is pursuing its object of study in innovative ways that are bringing it closer to the theoretical core of more general international relations work. As we point out, however, the study of regimes as practiced today suffers from the f…
The North American Political Economy in the Global Context: An Analytical Framework
David Leyton-Brown, John Gerard Ruggie, The North American Political Economy in the Global Context: An Analytical Framework, International Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1, The North American Political Economy (Winter, 1986/1987), pp. 3-24
International Cooperation: Building Regimes for Natural Resources and the Environment, by Oran R. Young
Journal Article International Cooperation: Building Regimes for Natural Resources and the Environment, by Oran R. Young International Cooperation: Building Regimes for Natural Resources and the Environment by Oran R. Young. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1989. 248 pp. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $10.95. John Gerard Ruggie John Gerard Ruggie University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Multilateralism: The Anatomy of an Institution
In 1989, peaceful change, which a leading realist theorist had declared a very low-probability event in international politics less than a decade before, accommodated the most fundamental geopolitical shift of the postwar era and perhaps of the entire twentieth century: the collapse of the Soviet East European empire and the attendant end of the cold war. Many factors were responsible for that shift. But there seems little doubt that multilateral…
Multilateralism matters: The Theory and Praxis of an Institutional Form
Wandering in the Void: Charting the U.N.'s New Strategic Role
domain of military activity?a vaguely defined no-mans-land lying somewhere between traditional peacekeeping and enforcement?for which it lacks any guiding operational concept. It has mere ly ratcheted up the traditional peace keeping mechanism in an attempt to respond to wholly new security chal lenges. The result is that the majority of the nearly 70,000 blue-helmeted peace keepers now out in the field serve in con texts for which peacekeeping w…
Territoriality and beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations
The concept of territoriality has been studied surprisingly little by students of international politics. Yet, territoriality most distinctively defines modernity in international politics, and changes in few other factors can so powerfully transform the modern world polity. This article seeks to frame the study of the possible transformation of modern territoriality by examining how that system of relations was instituted in the first place. The…
Territoriality and Who Is “US
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Peacekeeping and U. S. Interests
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