Welcome to STANCE!
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STANCE is a research program at the Department of Political Science at Lund University in Sweden
funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond). |
State-Making and the Origins of Global Order
in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond
STANCE is a 6-year research program built on the following research question:
How did state-making and the international system co-evolve in the long 19th century (1789-1914) and beyond?
How did state-making and the international system co-evolve in the long 19th century (1789-1914) and beyond?
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The program is constructed around three research themes: (1) How did the different dimensions of state-making evolve? What actors and organized interests supported or put up resistance to these processes?; (2) How were these dimensions of state-making affected by geopolitical competition, warfare and the diffusion of novel political technologies?; and (3) What were the consequences for the international system, both with respect to the type of state that emerged and what entities were granted membership in the state system?
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Map of European History
1789-2010
Adapted from a YouTube video |
Tidbits of European History
Source: Blanning, T. C. W. (ed) (2000).
The nineteenth century: Europe 1789-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press |
News and Events
Lunch Seminars
The STANCE research program organizes brown-bag lunches to present the latest research within the research area of politics, history and state-making. The seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12-13 at the Department of Political Science in Lund.
Spring schedule, 2018 June 13 - Sheri Berman, topic: “The decline of democratic institutions/populism in Europe and the US” Find out more about our previous events here. For more information, please contact info@stanceatlund.org. New Team MembersSTANCE is growing and we welcome Agnes Cornell (Associate Professor), Klas Nilsson (Post Doc) and Cem Mert Dallı (Intern) to the STANCE team! More information about our new team members can be found here.
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Visiting Scholars
During the spring, STANCE will host the following scholars at the Department of Political Science in Lund:
March 5-9: Charles Butcher, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim April 9-13: Benjamin Hopkins, Elliott School of International Affaires, George Washington University, Washington DC May 14-21: Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University, Nashville June 11-15: Sheri Berman, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York Working Papers
New Working Papers:
- Jens Bartelson - "Empire and State in Early Modern Political Thought" - David Andersen and Agnes Cornell - "The Ambiguous Effects of Democracy on Bureaucratic Quality" - Martin Hall - "Not becoming a state: the Icelandic Commonwealth from colonization to Norwegian suzerainty" The other 23 Papers in the STANCE Working Papers Series have been uploaded and can be found here on our website. |
Conference
States and Their Making:
International and Comparative Perspectives
Lund University, May 19-20, 2016
International and Comparative Perspectives
Lund University, May 19-20, 2016
Group Photo from the "States and Their Making" Conference in Lund, May 20, 2016
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