Neuroscience has had limited disciplinary connectivity to the field of International Relations (IR) and Politics. The field of IR is traditionally understood to be about the relations between states, competition, power and resources. As a result, the findings of neuroscience appear to hold little relevance for IR scholars. At the same time, the philosophical interest in human nature has been a crucial driver in the development of IR studies since its inception. At its origins, the Realist theory of International Relations comes from an analogy between human nature and states, and human nature and international anarchy. In his famous work Leviathan, first published in 1651, Thomas Hobbes elaborated on the state of nature and man’s fallible existence in the absence of …