Björn Paulini

Stoic Lifestyle Intervention for Executive Stress Management: Structure, Daily Practice, and Evaluation Approaches

Executives work in environments that combine high information flow, scarce recovery, and continuous evaluation. The result is chronic stress that impairs concentration, emotional stability, and decision-making. Established stress programmes often fail in executive contexts becaus...

Stoic Self-Regulation and Depression: Between Acceptance and Resignation

This article examines possible relations between Stoic philosophy and modern psychological concepts in the context of depressive burden. Central Stoic principles - the distinction between controllable and uncontrollable factors, reflection on one's appraisals, and orientation tow...

Inner Strength in Uncertain Times: Psychological and Spiritual Foundations of a Resilient Life

Uncertainty has become the new normal. People lose relationships, jobs, orientation, and at times the ground beneath their own sense of self. Those who seek security exclusively in external conditions exhaust themselves. Inner strength does not arise from controlling the world bu...

Inner Strength in Uncertain Times: Psychological and Spiritual Foundations of a Resilient Life

Uncertainty has become the new normal. People lose relationships, jobs, orientation, and at times the ground beneath their own sense of self. Those who seek security exclusively in external conditions exhaust themselves. Inner strength does not arise from controlling the world bu...

Youth in the Stream: Digital Media, Self-Regulation, and the Responsibility of Society

Digital media structure the daily life of adolescents at a historically new intensity. Public debate oscillates between alarmism and trivialisation — both miss the empirical situation. This article develops an evidence-based position. Digital media as such are not the development...

Stoic Self-Regulation and Depression: Between Acceptance and Resignation

This article examines possible relations between Stoic philosophy and modern psychological concepts in the context of depressive burden. Central Stoic principles - the distinction between controllable and uncontrollable factors, reflection on one's appraisals, and orientation tow...

Clarity Under Pressure: A Structural-Theoretical Model of Moral Stability Under Entrepreneurial Pressure

Entrepreneurial leadership unfolds under uncertainty, time pressure, and personal attribution of responsibility. Business ethics research intensively examines normative models of responsible leadership and the mechanisms of moral failure; it leaves open which inner structures sta...

Christian Faith as a Stabilising Factor in Existential Crises: An Interdisciplinary Analysis Across Psychology, Stoicism, and Religious Studies

Phases of existential disruption expose the fragility of human autonomy. Stability is often understood today as a product of personal control. When that control collapses, psychological disintegration becomes likely. This article examines the stabilising function of Christian fai...

Faith and Inner Leadership: The Integration of Christian and Stoic Virtue Ethics for Resilient Leadership in the Digital Age

Leadership in contemporary organisations is marked by volatility, moral complexity, and the erosion of stable value frames. This article develops an integrated theoretical model that connects Christian virtue ethics and Stoic philosophy — Virtue-Centered Inner Governance. Both tr...

De-facto Binding Without De-jure Accountability: Soft Law as a Functional Substitute for Legal Obligation in Global Governance

Soft-law instruments have become a central form of governance in international law. Formally non-binding, they increasingly produce effects comparable to legally binding norms. Pandemic declarations of the World Health Organization, conditionality mechanisms of European Union enl...

The Core Structure of Stoic Ethics: Control, Judgment, and Inner Freedom

This article reconstructs Stoic ethics as a coherent system of practical reason resting on three functionally connected elements: the distinction between what is subject to human control and what is not; the central role of judgment as the ethical hinge; the concept of inner free...

Christian Faith as a Psychological Resource in Modern Stress Research: An Integrative Analysis Drawing on Stoic Models

Christian faith is increasingly examined in psychology as a resource that strengthens cognitive appraisal, emotion regulation, and coping. This article analyses it as a multidimensional system that shapes perception, motivation, and resilience. Building on research into religious...

Stoic Principles as an Integrative Approach to Executive Stress Management: An Extended Theoretical Model

Modern executives face an array of professional burdens that intensify in complex, dynamic, and digitalised work environments. The result is chronic stress that impairs cognitive performance, emotional stability, and social interaction. Traditional coping programmes address singl...

Contract Performance Under Pandemic Pressure: Force Majeure, Renegotiation, Remedies, and Insurance - Legal Options for Businesses

This article outlines practical legal options for businesses struggling to meet contractual obligations under pandemic pressure. It clarifies the scope and operation of force majeure clauses, distinguishes them from frustration and related doctrines, and summarises renegotiation...

Stoicism and Christianity Compared: A Systematic Analysis of Their Commonalities and Differences

Stoicism and Christianity share three concerns: moral character, inner constancy, resilience under adversity. They rest on fundamentally different foundations. Stoicism builds on rational self-mastery and an impersonal cosmic order; Christianity builds on a personal God, divine g...

The Legal Mandate of the WHO in Declaring a Pandemic: Between Soft Law and Binding Obligations

The World Health Organization (WHO) holds a central position in international health law as the coordinating body for global public health. The legal basis and binding force of its pandemic declarations remain unclear. This article examines the WHO's legal mandate under the Inter...

The EU Accession Negotiations of Croatia as a Model Case of Modern Conditionality in International Law: An Essay on the Connection of Law, Politics, and Diplomatic Power in the Context of European Enlargement

Croatia's accession negotiations are among the most defining examples of modern European conditionality. The European Union linked politically formulated expectations with international-legal duties, creating a steering instrument that reaches far beyond classical diplomacy. The...

Political and Institutional Factors Influencing WHO Pandemic Declarations: An Analysis Beyond the Legal Framework of the IHR

The pandemic declaration of the World Health Organization (WHO) has no explicit legal basis in the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005). Yet its political and communicative effect is global. Drawing on the COVID-19 experience, this article examines how political interests,...

Christian Faith as a Psychological Resource in Modern Stress Research: An Integrative Analysis Drawing on Stoic Models

Christian faith is increasingly examined in psychology as a resource that strengthens cognitive appraisal, emotion regulation, and coping. This article analyses it as a multidimensional system that shapes perception, motivation, and resilience. Building on research into religious...

Contract Performance Under Pandemic Pressure: Force Majeure, Renegotiation, Remedies, and Insurance - Legal Options for Businesses

This article outlines practical legal options for businesses struggling to meet contractual obligations under pandemic pressure. It clarifies the scope and operation of force majeure clauses, distinguishes them from frustration and related doctrines, and summarises renegotiation...