Peter haldén (32 Ergebnisse)

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New.

Softcover. Zustand: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen.

Zustand: New. 2025. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 350 pages. 0.35x0.23x5.91 inches. In Stock.

inb. Zustand: As New. ny, inplastad.

Zustand: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Used.

Zustand: Used.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 388 pages. 6.00x0.80x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WHEN EVERYTHING IS A SIGNAL, NOTHING IS CLEAR.Honesty used to mean something.Now it triggers suspicion, escalation, and social cost.In a culture trained to read between every line, interpret every word, and infer intent behind every silence, sincerity no longer stabilizes relationships. It destabilizes them.WHEN EVERYTHING IS A SIGNAL examines how modern social, professional, and institutional environments have transformed communication into a continuous threat-detection exercise. When everything is treated as information, no statement is neutral. No explanation is complete. No honesty is taken at face value.This book is not about lying.It is about why truth stopped working as a social shortcut.Across workplaces, media, politics, and everyday conversation, the demand for transparency has quietly reversed its function. More explanation does not create clarity. It creates exposure. More honesty does not resolve tension. It escalates it.This is a precise, unsentimental analysis of how interpretation culture replaced trust, why signaling now outweighs substance, and how sincerity became a liability rather than a virtue.Written for readers tired of moralizing frameworks and psychological platitudes, this book does not offer advice, strategies, or solutions. It offers something rarer, a clean explanation of the system we are already living inside.If you have ever felt that saying more made things worse, this book explains why.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since the seventeenth century, scholars have argued that kinship as an organizing principle and political order are antithetical. This book shows that this was simply not the case. Kinship, as a principle of legitimacy and in the shape of dynasties, was fundamental to political order. Throughout the last one and a half millennia of European and Middle Eastern history, elite families and polities evolved in symbiosis. By demonstrating this symbiosis as a basis for successful polities, Peter Haldén unravels long-standing theories of the state and of modernity. Most social scientists focus on coercion as a central facet of the state and indeed of power. Instead, Halden argues that much more attention must be given to collaboration, consent and common identity and institutions as elements of political order. He also demonstrates that democracy and individualism are not necessary features of modernity.…

Zustand: New. 2026. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In recent years we have faced huge uncertainty and unpredictability across the world: Covid-19, political turbulence, climate change and war in Europe, among many other events. Through a historical analysis of worldviews, Peter Haldén provides nuance to the common belief in an uncertain world by showing the predictable nature of modern society and arguing that human beings create predictability through norms, laws, trust and collaboration. Haldén shows that, since the Renaissance, two worldviews define Western civilization: first, that the world is knowable and governed by laws, regularities, mechanisms or plan, hence it is possible to control and the future is possible to foresee; second, that the world is governed by chance, impossible to predict and control and therefore shocks and surprises are inevitable. Worlds of Uncertainty argues that between these two extremes lie positions that recognize the principal unpredictability of the world but seek pragmatic ways of navigating through it.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A junction for economic and political relations in northern EuropeThe Baltic Sea is more than an inland sea - it is a historic geopolitical stage. From maritime travel in the Viking era to a NATO-dominated region, this brackish inland sea has been a lifeline for people and countries in northern Europe. The Baltic Sea has served as a hub for economic and political relations, with the dominance of the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages, the Great Power Battles between Sweden, Poland-Lithuania and Russia, and the dramatic shifts in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, as well as two World Wars and the Cold War.But the Baltic Sea is also a place of cooperation. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the region has been characterised by integration and growth - a development that once again is being challenged by new geopolitical tensions.How will the future be affected by energy flows, climate change and military strategies In this comprehensive anthology, leading researchers in history, political science, international relations and other subjects are brought together to examine the driving forces that have formed the Baltic Sea region. From the 13th century until now.…

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 374 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. This book reinterprets the EU using classical and early modern republican political theory. Bypassing the nation-state, it presents a new theory of the creation, change and demise of organizations in world politics. It also argues that the state is a problematic solution to 'state-failure' and explores alternative republican commonwealths. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB; JPA; JPS; JPSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 351. . 2011. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Zustand: New. This book reinterprets the EU using classical and early modern republican political theory. Bypassing the nation-state, it presents a new theory of the creation, change and demise of organizations in world politics. It also argues that the state is a problematic solution to 'state-failure' and explores alternative republican commonwealths. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 406. . 2011. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Zustand: Used - Very Good. VG hardback. 1st edition. A very nice as-new copy.

Zustand: Used - Very Good. VG hardback. 1st edition. 279pp. No marks or inscriptions. Appears unread. Very slight shelf wear. Used - Very Good. VG hardback.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 296 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.67 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In recent years we have faced huge uncertainty and unpredictability across the world: Covid-19, political turbulence, climate change and war in Europe, among many other events. Through a historical analysis of worldviews, Peter Haldén provides nuance to the common belief in an uncertain world by showing the predictable nature of modern society and arguing that human beings create predictability through norms, laws, trust and collaboration. Haldén shows that, since the Renaissance, two worldviews define Western civilization: first, that the world is knowable and governed by laws, regularities, mechanisms or plan, hence it is possible to control and the future is possible to foresee; second, that the world is governed by chance, impossible to predict and control and therefore shocks and surprises are inevitable. Worlds of Uncertainty argues that between these two extremes lie positions that recognize the principal unpredictability of the world but seek pragmatic ways of navigating through it.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. pp. 256.

Zustand: New. In English.