THE POLITICS OF EMERGING STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGIES: Implications for Geopolitics, Human Enhancement and Human Destiny (St Antony's Series)
SUSTAINABLE HISTORY AND THE DIGNITY OF MAN: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph
CRITICAL TURNING POINTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: 1915 - 2015
NEO-STATECRAFT AND META-GEOPOLITICS:Reconciliation of Power, Interests and Justice in the 21st Century
"EMOTIONAL AMORAL EGOISM":A Neurophilosophical Theory of Human Nature
and its Universal Security Implications
POTENTIAL GLOBAL STRATEGIC CATASTROPHES: Balancing Transnational Responsibilities and Burden-sharing with Sovereignty and Human Dignity
SYMBIOTIC REALISM:A Theory of International Relations in an Instant and an Interdependent World
THE THREE PILLARS OF SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL SECURITY
IN A TRANSNATIONAL WORLD
THE FIVE DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL SECURITY:Proposal for a Multi-sum Security Principle
THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN GLOBAL SECURITY
MULTILATERALISM AND TRANSNATIONAL SECURITY:A Synthesis of Win-Win Solutions
POLICY BRIEFS ON THETRANSCULTURAL ASPECTS OF
SECURITY AND STABILITY
POLICY BRIEFS ON THETRANSNATIONAL ASPECTS OF
SECURITY AND STABILITY
THE EMERGENCE OF BLOGSAS a Fifth Estate AND
THEIR SECURITY IMPLICATIONS
THE GEOPOLITICAL AND GEOSECURITYIMPLICATIONS OF GLOBALIZATION
A PROPOSAL FOR INCLUSIVE PEACE AND SECURITY
STABILITY OF STATES:The Nexus Between Transnational Threats,
Globalization, and Internal Resilience
PILLARS OF GLOBALIZATION
GLOBAL BIOSECURITY:Towards a New Governance Paradigm
Sustainable History
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
Book of the week
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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)