Skytte Prize News

On September 29 at 15:15 the 2023 Skytte Prize laureates Martha Finnemore and Alexander Wendt will hold their prize winners’ lectures. The event takes place at the Department of Government, in Brusewitzsalen, Östra Ågatan 19, Uppsala.

The Johan Skytte Foundation is delighted to announce that Alexander Wendt and Martha Finnemore have been jointly awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. The prize is a recognition of their exceptional contributions to the field, particularly in advancing the constructivist approach to the study of international relations.

Read Li Bennich-Björkmans essey about this year’s recipients of the Johan Skytte Prize, Alexander Wendt and Martha Finnemore.

Just before Christmas, European political science lost one of its greatest champions. Jean Blondel (1929–2022), the 2004 Johan Skytte Prize winner, was Professor Emeritus at the European University Institute in Florence and renowned both as a specialist in comparative politics and an outstanding institution-builder.

On October 1, 2022 it is exactly 400 years since Johan Skytte, then vice-chancellor of Uppsala University, signed off a donation through which he founded the Johan Skytte Chair in Eloquence and Political Science. Today, the chair is the oldest, still surviving political science chair in the world.

On January 21, the Johan Skytte Foundation board has taken a unanimous decision to remodel the format of the Skytte Prize conferment ceremony. The ceremony will from now on become a biannual event.