Welcome to STANCE!
STANCE was 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 was 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 was 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
NewsSeptember 30, 2021
The STANCE research program has now reached its conclusion and is officially at an end. Six years of fascinating research and cooperation provided a lot of answers, but perhaps even more exciting new questions. The knowledge remains as the STANCE team is moving on to new things. September 2-3, 2021 STANCE hosted the conference State Making and Global Order in Historical-Comparative Perspective. For two full days, more than 40 participants from all around the world got together to discuss the various aspects of state making. See the conference program here: final_program_stance_conference_2021.pdf |
Visiting ScholarsEvery semester STANCE hosted four visiting scholars at the Department of Political Science in Lund.
Find out more about our plans for visiting scholars here. Working Papers
STANCE continuously published 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 published compilations of data from our affiliated researchers as datasets.
See a complete list of datasets here. |
Lunch SeminarsThe STANCE research program organized brown-bag lunches to present the latest research within the research area of politics, history and state-making. The seminars were 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.