2021-10-15 by Michal Smrek
The virtual prize award ceremony of the 2020- and 2021 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science was held on October 1, 2021. A video recording of the ceremony is now available for viewing. View it here.
Continue Reading..2021-07-04 by Michal Smrek (last update: 2021-09-22), photo: Mikael Wallerstedt
We are happy to announce that we will hold a virtual prize award ceremony to celebrate the 2020- and 2021 Skytte Prize laureates, Peter Katzenstein and David Laitin, on October 1, 2021 at 17:30 CET. Both laureates will deliver their prize winner lectures which will be commented upon by the 2019 Skytte Prize laureate, Margaret Levi. Follow this link to access the event: https://s3m.io/RGrjk
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2021-04-15 by Michal Smrek, illustration: Anna Ileby
David D. Laitin, Stanford University, is this year’s recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize, known by many as the ‘Nobel Prize in Political Science’. Professor Laitin is awarded the prize for his
Continue Reading..“original and objective explanation of how politics shapes cultural strategies in heterogeneous societies.”
2021-04-15 by Li Bennich-Björkman, an English translation of the 2021 Skytte Prize announcement article
Large Russian minorities had been living for decades in many of the republics that became independent states when the Soviet Union went to its grave in 1991. Many had migrated into the republics in conjunction with Soviet occupation and widespread industrialization, but had never learned the local language and relied on the lingua franca – Russian.
Continue Reading..Large Russian minorities had been living for decades in many of the republics that became independent states when the Soviet Union went to its grave in 1991. Many had migrated into the republics in conjunction with Soviet occupation and widespread industrialization, but had never learned the local language and relied on the lingua franca – Russian.
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2020-10-22 by Li Bennich-Björkman & Michal Smrek, photos: Mikael Wallerstedt
It is our sad duty to announce that Count Nils-Axel Mörner, the patron of the Johan Skytte Chair Professorship in Political Science and chairman of the Skytte Foundation, died on October 16, aged 82.Continue Reading..
2020-05-15 by Michal Smrek, illustration: Anna Ileby
The board of the Johan Skytte Foundation has due to the ongoing pandemic taken a decision to not hold the prize-award ceremony, banquet and all other Skytte-Prize-related festivities this year. This year’s laureate, Peter J. Katzenstein, will be celebrated next year together with the 2021 Skytte Prize laureate. The next Skytte Prize award ceremony will take place on October 2, 2021.
Earlier this year, Peter J. Katzenstein has been named the 26th recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. He is awarded the prize for:
furthering the understanding of how history, culture, and norms shape economies, as well as national and global security policy.
2020-04-09 by Li Bennich-Björkman, photo by Cornell University
As per custom, the winner of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science is announced on the pages of the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet. The prize announcement article is penned by the sitting Johan Skytte Professor in Political Science and chair of the Skytte Prize Committee Li Bennich-Björkman. What follows is an English translation of the article.
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2020-04-08 by Michal Smrek, illustration: Anna Ileby
Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University, USA, has been named the 26th recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. He is awarded the prize for:
furthering the understanding of how history, culture, and norms shape economies, as well as national and global security policy.
Katzenstein, born in Hamburg, Germany, has made pioneering contributions in research on the international system and international relations in which he has shown how national culture and history shape national perspectives on security and relations with other countries. By the 1980s, his work had laid the foundations of the field of political economy, in which relations between government, the market, and labor institutions are central. In his empirical research, Peter Katzenstein has specialized in Europe, especially Germany, Asia, especially Japan, and the United States. Katzenstein argues that, rather than moving towards greater congruence, the distinctiveness of national societies is being constantly reproduced, even in a globalized and digitalized world.
The prize ceremony will take place in Uppsala on 3 October 2020.
Read the traditional prize announcement article here. An English translation of the prize announcement article will be available in a week’s time.
2019-10-06 by Michal Smrek, all photos by Mikael Wallerstedt
The 25th Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science has been formally conferred to Margaret Levi on September 28, 2019. The prize was awarded by Nils-Axel Mörner, the current patron of the Johan Skytte Foundation. We would like to share some pictures with you from the prize winner’s lecture delivered by Professor Levi as well as the banquet at Värmlands nation that followed. All pictures were taken by the talented Mikael Wallerstedt.
2019-09-15 by Michal Smrek
Margaret Levi, Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University; and also Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington, will be awarded the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science on September 28, 2019. During her stay in Uppsala, Professor Levi will deliver two lectures to which the members of the public are cordially invited. The abstracts for both lectures can be found at the end of this article.