“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

Source: Neo-statecraft and Meta-geopolitics (2009), p.13

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