Nayef Al-Rodhan Quotes

Saudi Arabia, Geopolitician
June 8, 1959

Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan (Arabic: نايف الروضان‎; born 1959) is a Saudi philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, Senior Fellow and Centre Director of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland.

Also known as Philosopher, Neurosurgeon, Physician

What makes our existence meaningful is highly subjective and ultimately determined by sustainable neurochemical gratification.

Nayef Al-Rodhan
- Meaningful
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.

Nayef Al-Rodhan
- Together
- Vision

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).

Nayef Al-Rodhan