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This website is dedicated to the ideas and publications of Nayef Al-Rodhan.

Dr. Nayef Al-Rodhan is a Philosopher, Neuroscientist and Geostrategist.

He is Senior Member of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom and Senior Scholar in Geostrategy and Director of the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational Security Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland. Read more

THE FIVE DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL SECURITY

Book of the week


Nayef Al-Rodhan

Available at: Lit-verlag.de, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.jp

This book sets out a new and innovative security principle that is highly pertinent to our times: THE MULTI-SUM SECURITY PRINCIPLE. This principle aims not only to promote cooperative interaction between states, but also peaceful coexistence between cultural groups and civilizations. It combines a proposed new classification of global security that comprises five dimensions of security - human, environmental, national, transnational, and transcultural security (...) Read more

 

 

Endorsement

"The Five Dimensions of Global Security takes a fresh look at the frontiers of international security. It innovatively expands the sectoral approach, broadening the scope way beyond military matters. Its most important novelty is the introduction of justice in the international security discourse. With this it represents a new point of departure and will contribute to re-launching the debate."

Pál Dunay, Director, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs

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Sample Quotes


1) "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, p. 13)

2) "The sustainable history approach set out in this study views history as propelled by good governance paradigms that balance the tension between human nature attributes (emotionality, amorality and egoisms), on the one hand, and human dignity needs (reason, security, human rights, accountability, transparency, justice, opportunity, innovation and inclusiveness), on the other." (Nayef Al-Rodhan, Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man, p. 13)

3) "In my opinion, a life governed by reason is likely to be more dignified than one shaped by dogma and unbridled emotions." (Nayef Al-Rodhan, Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man, p. 437)

Article of the week

Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan and Gérard Stoudmann, "Definitions of Globalization: A Comprehensive Overview and a Proposed Definition," Program on the Geopolitical Implications of Globalization and Transnational Security, June 19, 2006.

Concept of the week

Ocean Model of One Human Civilisation

Civilisation conceived as a single human civilisation containing geo-cultural domains that encompass sub-cultures. If we conceive of civilisation as an ocean into which various geocultural domains add depth whenever a particular historical conjuncture provides conditions under which the most advanced forms of human enterprise can thrive, then civilisational triumph refers to a situation in which all component geo-cultural domains can flourish, albeit to varying degrees.

(see Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man by Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan)