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Nayef Al-Rodhan est un philosophe, neurochirurgien, théoricien de géopolitique et écrivain. Il dirige le Programme de géopolitique et des enjeux globaux au Centre de politique de sécurité de Genève . Il est chercheur honoraire à l’université d’Oxford. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. juin 1959
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Nayef Al-Rodhan: Citations en anglais

“Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to our moral sensitivities.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.15

“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.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.17

“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.”

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The Five Dimensions of Global Security: Proposal for a Multi-sum Security Principle, p. 15-16 (2007)

“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.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.71

“Neuro-rational Physicalism is premised on the neuro-biological foundation of human nature, which implies that thoughts, perceptions or emotions correspond to a physical reaction in the brain.”

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Knowledge and Global Order https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/article/knowledge-and-global-order/?fullscreen=true - OpenMind September 2013

“Cultural essentialism is, thus, intimately tied to power relations. Fixity, homogeneity and separateness are prioritised within an essentialist framework. Therefore, part of any effort to resist essentialism is recognising diversity within difference, contingency, mutability and connectedness.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.393

“Those who are outside the centres of power, because of the need for a positive and not simply a stable identity, are likely to find an independent identity appealing.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.180

“By promoting justice and thus the interests of the international community as a whole, a state will be able to make its influence over others sustainable and achieve its own national interest.”

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Source: Neo-statecraft and Meta-geopolitics (2009), p.147

“Institutions should focus on educating against clashes of culture and the promotion of a culture of tolerance and peace.”

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Source: The Role of Education in Global Security (2007), p.105

“A lesser-known fact about the geopolitics of resources has escaped public polemics. This refers to rare earth metals or rare-earth elements (REMs), a set of 17 naturally occurring non-toxic materials, which play a pivotal role for emerging technologies and which are predominantly produced and exported from China.”

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Rare-Earth Metals: Anticipating the New Battle for Resources http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/20/03/2014/rare-earth-metals-anticipating-new-battle-resources - Global Policy Journal, March 2014

“The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.203

“Morality, if present, should not be relied on because it will be trumped by self interest in most circumstances.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.204

“In other words, it is my view that the brain is preprogrammed to feel good (i. e., to seek a sense of well-being/gratification). This is what I term the gratification principle. This usually occurs as the result of instinctive salient/relevant acts or what we normatively decide are salient/relevant acts.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.110

“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.”

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Source: Neo-statecraft and Meta-geopolitics (2009), p.117

“International cooperation is required to prevent anarchic situations developing and the unmasking of ever-present brutality and injustice that results from fear for survival in such situations.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.204

“One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.403

“Human and societal security should be seen as complementary to state security, and security must be thought of in multi-sum and multi-dimensional terms (human, national, transnational, environmental and transcivilisational).”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.203

“Policies should take account of the emotional dimensions of human behaviour rather than assuming rational action.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.203

“Knowledge is also inferred from what is accepted as established knowledge, with new knowledge being based on the best explanation. This includes possible truths subject to proof.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.108

“Knowledge about things beyond our immediate environment may be acquired through deduction, if the initial premises are believed to be correct.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.108

“Many of the great achievements in history that are commonly attributed to one geo-cultural domain often owe a great debt to those of others. In this sense, some of the greatest achievements of human civilisation have been collective efforts and are part of the same human story.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.14

“All knowledge is to some extent interpreted.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.108

“Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.128

“Each high point in the history of human civilisation has taken place where the conditions were ripe and has borrowed and built on the achievements of other cultures whose golden age may have passed.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.138

“Much of what we often consider knowledge is actually a point of view held without sufficient grounds: in a word, dogma.”

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Knowledge and Global Order https://www.academia.edu/4418949/Knowledge_and_Global_Order_-_BBVA_OpenMind_August_2013/ - BBVA OpenMind, August 2013

“It is unrealistic to imagine a US geostrategic vision which sees its pivotal interests linked exclusively to the Pacific region. More appropriately, we need to consider the wider Middle East, Central Asia and North-East Africa to be bound together in a geopolitical unit of pivotal importance.”

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The Pivot Expanded http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/the-pivot-expanded - Small Wars Journal, October 2013

“Globalization is a process that encompasses the causes, course, and consequences of transnational and transcultural integration of human and non-human activities.”

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Pillars of Globalization, p. 13 (2006)

“We are neither radically free to choose our nature nor entirely determined by our biological heritage.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.65

“People should be educated about the links between education, ideology, and politics as a way to promote the virtue of humility.”

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Source: The Role of Education in Global Security (2007), p.106

“There is a physical neurobiological substrate to all human knowledge, including thoughts, memories, perceptions and emotions. To this end, mental states and thought processes are physical.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.109

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