Peter Haldén is Reader in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm, where he teaches military strategy at the Joint Advanced Command and Staff Programme. His main research interests concern the formation and maintenance of political orders in Eurasia in the long term, the history of knowledge and social thought, contemporary strategic problems, the role of geography in war and state-formation. He is the author of 'Worlds of Uncertainty. War, Philosophies and Projects for Order' (Cambridge University Press) and editor of 'The Baltic Sea: A Geopolitical History' (Bokförlaget Stolpe).