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

Nayef Al-Rodhan

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About Nayef Al-Rodhan

Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan (born 1959) is a Saudi philosopher, neuroscientist and geostrategist. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University and Centre Director, Centre for the Geopolitics of Globalization and Transnational Security and Senior Fellow, Emerging Security Challenges Programme, Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

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Alternative Names: Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

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Policies that assume that human nature is a tabula rasa (clean slate) should be reviewed and revised to reflect that man has an in-built genetic code for survival with no evidence for innate morality.

A state’s foreign policy should not just be smart, it should also be just.

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

Policies should take account of the emotional dimensions of human behaviour rather than assuming rational action. - Nayef Al-Rodhan

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