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.
26/9 Arjun Chowdrhury, University of British Columbia - "The Myth of International Order: Why weak states persist and alternatives to the state fade away" 10/10 Gezim Visoka, Dublin City University - "Acting Like a State: Kosovo and the Everyday Making of Statehood" 24/10 Gurminder Bhambra, University of Sussex - "In the beginning all the world was America: Dispossession, Justice, and Social Science" (at 13.15-14.30) 14/11 Laust Schouenborg, Roskilde University - "International Institutions in World History: Divorcing International Relations Theory from the State and Stage Models" 28/11 Mats Hallenberg, Joakim Scherp and Magnus Linnarsson, Stockholm University - title to be announced 5/12 Wenkai He, Warwick Univeristy - "Legitimating State Power and Social Policies in the Early Modern Era: England, Japan, and China" (at 13.15-14.30) 12/12 Victoria Hui, University of Notre Dame - title to be announced Find out more about our previous events here. For more information, please contact info@stanceatlund.org. |
Visiting Scholars
During the fall, STANCE will host the following visiting scholars at the Department of Political Science in Lund
24-28/8 Arjun Chowdhury, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Canada. 22-26/10 Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. 3-7/12 Wenkai He, Associate Professor and visiting scholar at Warwick University, UK. 10-14/12 Victoria Hui, Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Find out more about our previous visiting scholars here. Working Papers
New Working Papers:
- Sara Kalm and Johannes Lindvall: "Poor Relief and Internal Migration: Lessons from the Nineteenth Century" - Agustín Goenaga, Oriol Sabaté and Jan Teorell: "War and state capacity in the long nineteenth century" The other 26 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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