META-GEOPOLITICS OF OUTER SPACE: An Analysis of Space Power, Security and Governance (St Antony's Series)
THE POLITICS OF EMERGING STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGIES: Implications for Geopolitics, Human Enhancement and Human Destiny (St Antony's Series)
THE ROLE OF THE ARAB-ISLAMIC WORLD IN THE RISE OF THE WEST: Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations (Palgrave MacMillan)
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.
Senior Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford University, UK, and Senior Fellow and Centre Director of the Centre for the Geopolitics of Globalization and Transnational Security, Geneva Center for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland. Read more
Book of the week
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This book proposes an innovative and comprehensive framework for conducting statecraft in the 21st century. Called neo-statecraft, this framework is based on the reconciliation of power, interests and justice. The author proposes four substrates of neo-statecraft: 1) a new structure he calls meta-geopolitics, which includes seven inter-related dimensions of state power (...) Read more
Endorsements
“This book offers a refreshing and ambitious re-examination of the nature of statecraft and geopolitics and contains a number of relevant concepts that can be translated into brand-new research and ambitious policy goals. Building on a number of his previous concepts, the author continues a remarkable endeavour aimed at updating and adapting traditional geopolitical perceptions. Step by step, brick after brick, the author is clearly building a major comprehensive contribution to strategic thinking and diplomacy.”
Professor François Géré, Director of Research at Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle and President of the French Institute for Strategic Analysis (IFAS), Paris, France.
“This book provides a carefully crafted description of how the international system is being transformed and defines the challenges facing contemporary statecraft in handling that transformation. Nayef Al-Rodhan has undertaken this enormous task by defining the concept of meta-geopolitics and addressing potential future problems while making full use of the analytical tools that he has developed. It is a unique and intellectually courageous undertaking that will help us gain deeper insights into the many dimensions of current and future security challenges.”
Ambassador Rolf Ekéus, Chairman of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Stockholm, Sweden.
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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 Al-Rodhan - Three Philosophical Works in Global Politics", by Tel Asiado, Suite 101, October 4, 2010.
Concept of the week
Minimum Criteria of Inclusive, Effective and Good National Governance
These include: (1) participation, equity and inclusiveness; (2) rule of law; (3) separation of powers; (4) free, independent and responsible media; (5) government legitimacy; (6) accountability; (7) transparency; and (8) limiting the distorting effect of money in politics.
(see Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man by Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan)