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The twenty-first century combines new configurations of power with new technologies of influence. Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan explores this combination of challenges, drawing on a gamut of disciplines ranging from neurochemistry to international relations. He comments on the addictive character of exercising power, and the seductive promise of human enhancement, and many other unsettling and important themes. Onora Sylvia O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve is a philosopher and crossbench member of the House of Lords. She is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and former President of the British Academy A fascinating, multi-layered read on the nature of power and the human condition. Oxford University's Nayef Al-Rodhan provides valuable insights into how political power is evolving in times of cyber-societies and artificial intelligence, when many highlight the increasing need for people to keep power in check and protect individual rights. 'On Power: Its Nature and Future' paints a conceptual and practical picture of power based on eye-opening interdisciplinary research that spans politics, neurochemistry and moral philosophy. A seminal work reminiscent in part of Henry Kissinger's early writing, the book is a timely reminder of the perils of absolute and unchecked political power. Franco Frattini is two-time Italian Foreign Minister and former European Commissioner

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Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan is a neuroscientist, philosopher and geostrategist. He is an Honorary Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London, and a Senior Fellow and Head of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.Al-Rodhan began his career as a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist. Since 2002, he has shifted his scholarly focus to the interplay between neuroscience and international relations. Through several publications, he has pioneered the application of neuroscience, namely the neurochemical mechanisms that underpin emotions, to the understanding of trends in contemporary geopolitics and global security. Through many innovative books and articles, he has made significant conceptual contributions to the application of the field of neurophilosophy to human nature, contemporary geopolitics, international relations, and outer space security.

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