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.
4/3: Sven-Eric Liedman - "Marx, the workers' movement, and the state" 25/3: Magnus Olofsson - TBA 1/4: Lars-Erik Cederman - TBA 22/4: Carlos Perez Ricart - TBA 29/4: Alejandra Irigoin - TBA 6/5: Walter Scheidel - TBA 13/5: Kimberly Morgan - TBA 20/5: Bart Klem - TBA 27/5: John Darwin - TBA 3/6: Nevra Biltekin - TBA Find out more about our previous events here. Datasets |
Visiting Scholars
Every semester STANCE hosts four visiting scholars at the Department of Political Science in Lund. Visiting scholars for the spring semester 2020:
4-8/5: Walter Scheidel 11-15/5: Kimberly Morgan 8-12/6: David Armitage Find out more about our previous visiting scholars here. Working Papers
New Working Papers:
- Jens Bartelson: "Cosmos and Conquest: Precursors of Iberian Overseas Expansion, c. 1500-1600" - Per Andersson: "Fiscal Capacity in Non-Democratic States" - Agustín Goenaga: "State Capacity beyond Executive Power: Towards an Institutionalist View" - Simon Davidsson: "The Belgian Parliamentary Regime 1830-2014" - Klas Nilsson: "Non-Taxation and Non- Representation in Historical Europe: Insights from Early-Modern Sweden" The other 35 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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