Nayef Al-Rodhan
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Dr. Nayef Al-Rodhan is a philosopher, neuroscientist and geostrategist. He is a Senior Member of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University and Director of the Programme on the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational Security at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
- I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.
- Nayef Al-Rodhan, Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph. Berlin: LIT, 2009, p. 13
- A good governance paradigm that limits excesses of human nature and ensures an atmosphere of happiness and productivity by promoting reason and dignity is required.
- Nayef Al-Rodhan, Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph. Berlin: LIT, 2009, p. 27
- Human beings are “emotional amoral egoists”, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.
- Nayef Al-Rodhan, Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph. Berlin, 2009, p. 27
- What makes our existence meaningful is highly subjective and ultimately determined by sustainable neurochemical gratification.
- Nayef Al-Rodhan, Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph. Berlin: LIT, 2009, p. 28
- There is only one collective human civilisation comprised of geo-cultural domains and cultures.
- Nayef Al-Rodhan, Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph. Berlin: LIT, 2009, p. 28
- Our new concept of “just power” argues that the promotion of justice should be the aim of modern statecraft, not for altruistic reasons, but because it is the only sustainable way that states can promote progress and stability in a globalised world.
- Nayef Al-Rodhan, Neo-statecraft and Meta-geopolitics: Reconciliation of Power, Interests and Justice in the 21st Century. Berlin: LIT, 2009, p. 13
- If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.
- Nayef Al-Rodhan, Neo-statecraft and Meta-geopolitics: Reconciliation of Power, Interests and Justice in the 21st Century. Berlin: LIT, 2009, p. 171
- The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.
- Nayef Al-Rodhan, “emotional amoral egoism:” A Neurophilosophical Theory of Human Nature and its Universal Security Implications. Berlin: LIT, 2008, p. 16
- Human nature as we know it is, nevertheless, malleable and “manageable”. It may be radically modified as a result of advances in bio-, molecular, nano- and computational technologies. It will therefore be essential to establish a clear code of ethics regulating the use of these technologies sooner rather than later.
- Nayef Al-Rodhan, “emotional amoral egoism:” A Neurophilosophical Theory of Human Nature and its Universal Security Implications .Berlin: LIT, 2008, p. 17
- Circumstances will determine what I term the survival value of humankind’s moral compass. Being highly moral in an immoral environment will almost certainly be detrimental to one’s survival and vice versa.
- Nayef Al-Rodhan, “emotional amoral egoism:” A Neurophilosophical Theory of Human Nature and its Universal Security Implications. Berlin: LIT, 2008, p. 71
- In a globalized world, security can no longer be thought of as a zero-sum game involving states alone. Global security, instead, has five dimensions that include human, environmental, national, transnational, and transcultural security, and, therefore, global security and the security of any state or culture cannot be achieved without good governance at all levels that guarantees security through justice for all individuals, states, and cultures.
- Nayef Al-Rodhan, The Five Dimensions of Global Security: Proposal for a Multi-sum Security Principle. Berlin: LIT, 2007, p. 15-16
- We should aim for peaceful coexistence at least and transcultural synergy at best.
- Nayef Al-Rodhan, Symbiotic Realism: A Theory of International Relations in an Instant and an Interdependent World. Berlin: LIT, 2007, p. 124
