Welcome to STANCE!
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?
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
NewsOctober 7, 2020
STANCE have the honor of hosting Associate professor Charles Butcher of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Professor Butcher will be presenting one of his latest papers titled Beyond Ethnicity: Dead States and Modern Conflict. To join, send a request to martin.hansen@svet.lu.se. August 5, 2020 Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and in accordance with international recommendations, the STANCE research program have decided to postpone this years STANCE Conference until June 2021. August 1, 2020 All of us affiliated with The STANCE research program bid our ever-helpful project assistant Pia Lonnoakko farewell and wishes her good luck as she moves on to other exciting things. We also welcome Martin Hansen to the project, as he will join us as project assistant for the autumn semester. |
Visiting ScholarsEvery semester STANCE hosts four visiting scholars at the Department of Political Science in Lund.
Find out more about our current plans for visiting scholars here. Working Papers
STANCE continuously publish ongoing work in the form of working papers. All working papers are available through open access.
See the latest working papers here. See all published working papers here. DatasetsSTANCE publish compilations of data from our affiliated researchers as datasets.
See a complete list of datasets here. |
Lunch SeminarsThe 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.
See a list of current and upcoming seminars here. See all previous seminars here. |
The STANCE research program also hosts conferences with scholars visiting from all around the world. See more information about previous STANCE organized conferences here.