Publications

2025

Benedicte Bull: The rise of authoritarian capitalism: What does it mean for businesses that seek peace?

Published in Business Horizons

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Benedicte Bull, Antulio Rosales and Manuel Sutherland:  Authoritarian Capitalism in Venezuela: The Political Economy of Maduro's Disorderly Liberalization

Published in Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis. Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro, Routledge

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Johanna S. Adolfsson et al.: Indigenizing Psychology. A Way Forward for Indigenous Knowledges in the Psy-Disciplines?

Published in International Perspectives in Psychology

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2024

Johanna S. Adolfsson and Gertrude Finyiza: The Western psychologization of global development: A cultural and decolonial approach

Published in Theory & Psychology

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Benedicte Bull: Does the Rise of the Global South Weaken Democracy? The Pivotal Case of the 2024 Presidential Elections in Venezuela

Published in Forum for Development Studies

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Benedicte Bull and Antulio Rosales: Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America

Published in Development and Change

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Johanna S. Adolfsson, Dan Banik and Boniface Dulani: Power, Politics, and the Supernatural: Exploring the Role of Witchcraft Beliefs in Governance for Development

Published in Forum for Development Studies

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Benedicte Bull: China and the New Geopolitics of Climate Multilateralism in Latin America

Published in Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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2023

Rosales, Bull and Sutherland: Depredación y ausencia de burocracia: la situación de los empleados públicos en Venezuela desde la mirada de la capacidad estatal

Published in América Latina Hoy

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Benedicte Bull and Francisco Sánchez: Las élites (políticas) desde América Latina

Published in América Latina. Democracias Frágiles y Conflictividad

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Benedicte Bull and Antulio Rosales: How Sanctions Led to Authoritarian Capitalism in Venezuela

Published in Current History

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Dan Banik and Benedicte Bull: Multilateralism to the Rescue? Beijing’s Support for Multilateral Institutions during the COVID-19 Crisis

Published in International Quarterly for Asian Studies

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2022

Eric Cezne and Ulrikke Wethal: Reading Mozambique’s mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments

Published in African Affairs

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2021

Benedicte Bull, Antulio Rosales and Manuel Sutherland: Venezuela: From economic crisis to elitist 'bodega capitalism

Published in El Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales

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Benedicte Bull: Abortliberalisering og motstand i Latin-Amerika: Hva kan religion forklare?

Published in Kirke og Kultur 3


Jason Miklian & Ralf Barkemeyer: Business, peacebuilding, violent conflict and sustainable development in Myanmar: presenting evidence from a new survey dataset

Published in Journal of Asia Business Studies

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Benedicte Bull & Francisco Robles Rivera: El COVID-19, las élites y el futuro de la economía política de la reducción de la desigualdad en América Latina

Published in Revista CEPAL

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Benedicte Bull: A new global Resource Order, Elites and the Environment in Latin America

Chapter in Natural Resources and Policy Choices in Latin America

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Anna G. Sveinsdóttir, Mariel Aguilar-Støen and Benedicte Bull: Resistance, repression and elite dynamics: Unpacking violence in the Guatemalan mining sector

Published in Geoforum

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2020

Benedicte Bull and Francisco Sánchez: Élites y populistas: los casos de Venezuela y Ecuador

Published in Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Jason Miklian and Kristian Hoelscher: Entrepreneurial Strategies to Address Rural-Urban Climate-Induced Vulnerabilities: Assessing Adaptation and Innovation Measures in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Published in: Sustainability

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Benedicte Bull og Francisco Sánchez: Eliter, populister og venstrebølgens endelikt i Latin-Amerika

Published in Agora


Sören Jeppesen and Jason Miklian: Research in the Time of COVID-19

Published in Forum for Development Studies

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Antulio Rosales: The rise and collapse of Venezuelan socialism: State, rentierism and the Bolivarian Revolution

Published In New perspectives in the study of Latin American states

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Benedicte Bull: Elites and state capacity in Latin America: a resource-based perspective on recent changes in El Salvador

Published in New perspectives in the study of Latin American states

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Benedicte Bull and Antulio Rosales: The crisis in Venezuela: Drivers, transitions, and pathways

Published in European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (ERLACS)

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2019

Dan Banik & Benedicte Bull: Chinese engagement in Africa and Latin America: does it matter for state capacity?

Published in Esteban Nicholls (ed.) Studying the State

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Benedicte Bull: Review of Latin America Since the Left Turn

Published in European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Benedicte Bull & Jason Miklian: Towards global business engagement with development goals? Multilateral institutions and the SDGs in a changing global capitalism

Published in Business and Politics

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Benedicte Bull & Desmond McNeill: From market multilateralism to governance by goal setting: SDGs and the changing role of partnerships in a new global order

Published in Business and Politics

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Benedicte Bull: Combating Inequality: Is There a "Scandinavian Way" to Reduce Inequality in Latin America?

Published in Ibero Americana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Antulio Rosales: Radical rentierism: Gold mining, cryptocurrency and commodity collateralization in Venezuela

Published in Review of International Political Economy

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Jason Miklian et al.: Business, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development

Published by Routledge

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Antulio Rosales: Statization and denationalization dynamics in Venezuela's artisanal and small scale-large-scale mining interface

Published in Resources Policy

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Antulio Rosales: Structural constraints in times of resource nationalism: oil policy and state capacity in post-neoliberal Ecuador

Published in Globalizations

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Michael Chasukwa & Dan Banik: Institutional bypass and aid effectiveness in Africa

Published in United Nations University – Wider

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Jason Miklian: Contextualising and theorising economic development, local business and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar

Published in Conflict, Security and Development

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Jason Miklian & Peer Schouten: Broadening ‘business’, widening ‘peace’: a new research agenda on business and peace-building

Published in Conflict, Security and Development

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Benedicte Bull & Mariel Aguilar-Støen: Peace-building and business elites in Guatemala and El Salvador: explaining the discursive ‘institutional turn’

Published in Conflict, Security and Development

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Ralf Barkemeyer and Jason Miklian: Responsible Business in Fragile Contexts: Comparing Perceptions from Domestic and Foreign Firms in Myanmar

Published in Sustainability

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Dan Banik: Coordinating Chinese Aid in a Globalized World

Published in Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

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2018

Dan Banik: Taking Stock of the SDGs

Published in Leaving No One Behind: SDGs and South-South Cooperation


Dan Banik and Benedicte Bull: Chinese engagement in Africa and Latin America: does it matter for state capacity?

Published in Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal

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Antulio Rosales: China and the decaying of socialist rentierism in Venezuela: instability and the prevalence of non-interventionism

Published in Third World Thematics Special Issue

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Desmond McNeill: REDD+, NGOs and local governance

Published in International Forestry Review

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Antulio Rosales: Exhaustion of the Neo-Extractivism Model in Venezuela: Economic Causes and Their Global Implications

Published in Pensamiento propio

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Antulio Rosales: Pursuing foreign investment for nationalist goals: Venezuela's hybrid resource nationalism

Published in Business and Politics

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Desmond McNeill: World Bank, Human Rights and Health: A Commentary

Published in Global Health Governance

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Peer Schouten and Jason Miklian: The business–peace nexus: ‘business for peace’ and the reconfiguration of the public/private divide in global governance

Published in Journal of International Relations and Development

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Mariel Aguilar-Støen: Social forestry movements and science-policy networks: The politics of the forestry incentives program in Guatemala

Published in Geoforum

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2017

Eric Hellenier and Antulio Rosales: Toward Global IPE: The Overlooked Significance of the Haya-Mariátegui Debate

Published in International Studies Review

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Benedicte Bull: Transformación Económica, Élites Empresariales y Adaptación al Cambio Climático en El Salvador

Published in Prisma


Benedicte Bull: Norsk utenrikspolitikk og den latinamerikanske «venstrebølgen»: mellom ideologi og realpolitikk

Chapter in Norge i Latin-Amerika: Forbindelser og forestillinger, Cappelen Damm Akademisk

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Jennifer Oetzel and Jason Miklian: Multinational enterprises, risk management, and the business and economics of peace

Published in Multinational Business Review

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Benedicte Bull and Yuri Kasahara: The Transnationalization of Diversified Business Groups and the Changing Face of Central American Economic Elites

Published in Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos

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Desmond McNeill: Safety in Numbers: why everyone listens to economists

Chapter in Knowledge and Power in an Overheated World


Mariel Aguilar-Støen and Benedicte Bull: Norway’s contribution to peacebuilding in Guatemala, 1996–2016

Published as a NOREF report

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Desmond McNeill et al:Co-Operation or Co-Optation? NGOs’ Roles in Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative

Published in Forests

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Desmond McNeill et al.: Trade and Investment Agreements: Implications for Health Protection

Published in Journal of World Trade

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Mariel Aguilar-Støen: Better Safe than Sorry? Indigenous Peoples, Carbon Cowboys and the Governance of REDD in the Amazon

Published in Forum for Development Studies

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Mariel Aguilar-Støen & Cecilie Hirsch: Bottom-up responses to environmental and social impact assessments: A case study from Guatemala

Published in Environmental Impact Assessment Review

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2016

Benedicte Bull, Mariel Aguilar Støen et al.: Protestas contra la minería en Guatemala ¿Qué papel juegan las élites en los conflictos?

Published in Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos

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Desmond McNeill et al.: Political origins of health inequities: Trade and investment agreements (TIA)

Viewpoint in The Lancet

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Benedicte Bull: Latin America’s Decade of Growth: Progress and Challenges for a Sustainable Development, and Lessons for the Pacific Alliance

Chapter in Emerging Markets. The Pacific Alliance. Perspectives & Opportunities for Latin America, European Institute of International Studies

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Mariel Aguilar-Støen, Fabiano Toni, Cecilie Hirsch: Forest Governance in Latin America: Strategies for Implementing REDD

Chapter in Environmental Governance in Latin America, Springer

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Benedicte Bull and Mariel Aguilar-Støen: Changing Elites, Insitutions and Environmental Governance

Chapter in Environmental Governance in Latin America, Springer

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Matthew J. Taylor, Mariel Aguilar-Støen, Edwin Castellanos, Michelle J. Moran-Taylor, Kody Gerkin: International migration, land use change and the environment in Ixcán, Guatemala

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Benedicte Bull: Governance in the Aftermath of NeoLiberalism: Aid, Elites and State Capacity in Central America

Published in Forum for Development Studies

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Sidsel Roalkvam and Desmond McNeill: What counts as progress? The Contradictions of Global Health Initiatives

Published in Forum for Development Studies

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Mariel Aguilar-Støen: Beyond Transnational Corporations, Food and Biofuels: The Role of Extracitivism and Agribusiness in Land Grabbing in Central America

Published in Forum for Development Studies

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2015

Benedicte Bull: Pensamiento social noruego sobre América Latina

Published by CLACSO

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Benedicte Bull: América Latina ante el siglo XXI como fuente del narcotráfico y de alternativas que desafían la "guerra contra las drogas"

Chapter in Subculturas del narcotráfico en américa latina. Realidades geoeconómicas y geopolíticas y la representación sociocultural de unas nuevas ética y estética en Colombia, México y Brasil, UniAndes-Universidad de los Andes


Benedicte Bull, Mariel Aguilar Støen and Cecilie Hirsch: Gobernanza ambiental en América Latina

Chapters in Gobernanza ambiental en América Latina, CLACSO


Sakiko Fukada-Parr and Desmond Mcneill: Post 2015: a new era of accountability?

Published in Journal of Global Ethics

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Desmond McNeill: Norway and REDD+ in Indonesia: The Art of Not Governing?

Published in Forum for Development Studies

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Mariel A. Støen and Cecilie Hirsch: Environmental Impact Assessments, local power and self-determination: The case of mining and hydropower development in Guatemala

Published in The Extractive Industries and Society

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Mariel A. Støen: Global forest conservation initiatives as spaces for participation in Colombia and Costa Rica

Published in Geoforum

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2014

Benedicte Bull and Mariel Aguilar-Støen: Environmental Politics in Latin America: Elite dynamics, the left tide and sustainable development

Published by Routledge

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Mariel Aguilar-Støen, Matthew Taylor and Edwin Castellanos: Agriculture, Land Tenure and International Migration in Rural Guatemala

Published in Journal of Agrarian Change

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Mariel Aguilar-Støen: Exploring participation in new forms of environmental governance: a case study of payments for environmental services in Nicaragua

Published in Environment, Development and Sustainability

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Benedicte Bull:Towards a Political Economy of Weak Institutions and Strong Elites in Central America

Published in European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies


Benedicte Bull, Fulvio Castellacci and Yuri Kasahara: Business Groups and Transnational Capitalism in Central America

Published by Palgrave Macmillan

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2013

Benedicte Bull: Elites and environmental governance in Latin America

Working paper

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Benedicte Bull and Nelson Cuellar: Elites and the limits of interactive environmental

ENGOV Working paper

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Benedicte Bull and Yuri Kasahara: The Transformation of Central American Economic Elites: from Local Tycoons to Transnational Business Groups

Chapter in Handbook of Central American Governance, Routledge

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REDD: Insights from the field (2013) - Norway’s Commitment to REDD+

Policy brief

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Desmond McNeill: REDD and the global discourse on climate change and poverty

Chapter in A Changing Environment for Human Security. Transformative Approaches to Research, Policy and Action, Routledge

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Benedicte Bull: 'Diversified Business Groups and the Transnationalisation of the Salvadorean economy

Published in Journal of Latin American Studies

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Benedicte Bull: Social Movements and the 'Pink Tide' Governments in Latin America: Transformation, Inclusion and Rejection

Chapter in Democratization in the Global South

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