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?
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.

Find out more about our previous events here.

Datasets

New Datasets:
- Immigration Policies in Europe, 1880-1920
- Information Capacity Dataset

Visiting Scholars

Every semester STANCE hosts four visiting scholars at the Department of Political Science in Lund.

Find out more about our previous visiting scholars here.

Working Papers

New Working Papers:
- Amanda Cheney, "Tibet’s Incorporation into China:
Contrasting Historical Narratives and the PRC’s Ontological Security"
  
The other 32 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
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Group Photo from the "States and Their Making" Conference in Lund, May 20, 2016