Geopolitical Analyst

Nayef Al-Rodhan

bioethics

b. 1959

"Strict ethical guidelines need to be developed in anticipation of significant technological and biotechnological advances in order to guarantee human dignity."

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Politics

Idealism

1928–2017

"With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford."

🇺🇸Joseph Nye

Science

1937–2025

"Humans sometimes make surprising choices, and human history is full of uncertainties."

🇺🇸George F. Kennan

Politics

1904–2005

"Collection of all of Kennan's articles published in Foreign Affairs"

🇺🇸George Friedman

Literature

b. 1949

"Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars."

🇩🇪Carl Schmitt

Literature

Continental philosophy

1888–1985

"The concept of the state presupposes the concept of the political."

🇺🇸Nicholas J. Spykman

Science

1893–1943

"Plans for far-reaching changes in the character of international society are an intellectual by-product of all great wars."

🇺🇸Immanuel Wallerstein

Economics

1930–2019

"The past can be told as it truly is, not was. For recounting the past is a social act of the present done by men of the present and affecting the social system of the present."

🇺🇸Brooks Adams

Philosophy

1848–1927

"The Economics of Human Energy in Brooks Adams, Ezra Pound and Robert Theobald"

🇺🇸Samuel P. Huntington

Education

1927–2008

"Samuel Huntington explaining himself his book and thesis about the clash of civilization in a 1997 interview with Charlie Rose"

🇺🇸Robert D. Kaplan

Literature

b. 1952

"Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist."