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Nayef Al-Rodhan is a philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, Senior Fellow and Centre Director of the Centre for the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational Security at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. A prize-winning scholar, he has published 21 books proposing many innovative concepts and theories in global politics, security, philosophy and history. He is the author of “Emotional Amoral Egoism”: A Neurophilosophical Theory Of Human Nature And Its Universal Security Implications (Lit Verlag, Berlin, 2008).
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