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.
27/2 - Erik Bengtsson, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economic History at Lund University. Topic to be announced. 6/3 - Reading and discussion: State formation 20/3 - Kristine Eck, Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Topic to be announced. (the seminar is held at 13.15-14.30) 27/3 - Ann Towns, Professor at the Department of Political Science at University of Gothenburg. Topic: "Theorizing Gender and International Hierarchies in Diplomacy" 24/4 - Melissa Lee, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Topic: "Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State" 8/5 - Didac Queralt, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Topic to be announced. 15/5 - Valerie Hudson, Professor in the Department of International Affairs at Texas A&M University. Topic to be announced. (the seminar is held at 13.15-14.30) Find out more about our previous events here. For more information, please contact info@stanceatlund.org. |
Visiting Scholars
Every semester STANCE hosts four visiting scholars at the Department of Political Science in Lund - the visting scholars for the spring semester 2019 are:
March 25-29: Ann Towns, University of Gothenburg April 22-26: Melissa Lee, Princeton University May 6-10: Didac Queralt, Yale University May 13-17: Valerie Hudson, Texas A&M University Find out more about our previous visiting scholars here. Working Papers
New Working Papers:
- Alexandra L. Cermeño, Kerstin Enflo and Johannes Lindvall, "Railways and Reform: How Trains Strengthened the Nation State" The other 28 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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