A two-year LABOR HISTORY postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social and @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor Please apply!

Trump Team Calls Maduro a ‘Cartel’ Boss. That Word Doesn’t Mean What You Think. Venezuelans coined a figure of speech for the phenomenon of generals corrupted by drug money: “Cartel de los Soles.” Then the US started talking about it as a literal organization. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Når en gruppe norske akademikere etter 27 desk rejects endelig får manuset sitt sendt ut til vurdering:

Terrorist Designations of Cartel de los Soles www.state.gov/releases/off...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

🌟 Ny artikkel 👤 Gunnar Grendstad 👉 «For mange er kalt, men få er utvalgt.» En analyse av innstillingen av dommere til Norges Høyesterett 2004–2025 📘 Lov og Rett 🔗 doi.org/10.18261/lor...

📣 New chapter 🌟 👥 Torvald Falch & Per Selle 👉 Indigene Politik in Finland, Norwegen und Schweden: Gleich und doch anders 📘 Henningsen & Jochem (eds): Die politischen Systeme Nordeuropas, Nomos 🔗 www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/die-pol...

NEW: The Venezuelan nationals the US government sent to El Salvador in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence. In a new report, HRW and @cristosal.bsky.social provide a comprehensive account of the treatment of these people in El Salvador.

Who is María Machado 🇻🇪, why will she receive the Nobel peace prize 🕊️🏅 and why is she so controversial? Join us for a conversation with @benedictebull.bsky.social Ramón Dønvold Barreto-Pirela @leivm.bsky.social and Eirik Holmøyvik ➡️ Thur 27 Nov 🕦 10:00-11:00 📍 here / online 🥐☕ Welcome!

»Jeg er ikke sikker på, at Trump ved, hvilke kræfter han slipper løs ved at vælte Maduro militært« politiken.dk/del/gfuW9EAF...

“These are people who did everything by the book, paid taxes, had no criminal records, opened businesses and contributed to their communities...now they have become collateral damage in this cruel, unjust and inhumane political game.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

"One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver." apnews.com/article/trum...

In my view this was when we unequivocally could state that Venezuela no longer was a democracy.

“If #Milei cannot control inflation and translate his market-oriented agenda into tangible gains for a majority of #Argentines, the electorate that brought him to power may quickly turn elsewhere,” @vickymurillo.bsky.social for @foreignaffairs.com Read it here: www.foreignaffairs.com/argentina/mi...

🌍 #SGEU26 @ecprsgeu.bsky.social Section seeking Panels & Papers ⚡ Populism, Radical Politics and the EU 🪑 @nathaliebrack.bsky.social & @sldelange.bsky.social ⌛⬇️ Deadline: 10 Dec buff.ly/o2UHyIA #Populist #ExtremistPolitics #FarRight #Polisky #EuropeanParliament #EU

This week's Friday reading list includes an absurd number of articles about Venezuela, and yet I feel I missed a bunch too. boz.substack.com/p/friday-rea...

Wow, this leak to CNN very likely means no attacks inside Venezuela for now. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

The Senate is set to vote on a bipartisan measure to block President Trump from attacking Venezuelan territory in a new test of Republicans’ willingness to oppose his use of military force in Latin America.

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

Two American B-52Hs off the coast of Venezuela.

Booooooooo us

🎉 Many congratulations to @saradybesland.bsky.social for winning Best Paper Prize at the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference 2025! Her paper is entitled "Misrepresented or Miss Represented?" focusing on gender and policy responsiveness, praised for its contribution and creativity! Well done! 🥳

Microsoft Teams is just awful. Why oh why do we (universities) insist on using it?? (This is by no means a hot take)

📣 New article 🌟 👥 Javier Martínez-Cantó @javiermcanto.bsky.social & Julià Tudó-Cisquella @julitudo.bsky.social 👉 Aliança Catalana and Vox in Catalonia: united in nativism, divided by the nation 📗 Open Access in: Regional & Federal Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1359...

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲! 🚨 🇪🇸 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮 and 𝗩𝗼𝘅 in Catalonia: united in nativism, divided by the nation 🔓Read the new #openaccess article by @javiermcanto.bsky.social & @julitudo.bsky.social here 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1359... #Radicalright #Catalonia #Vox #AliançaCatalana #nationalism

Daniel Ziblatt writes the way he studies democracy: with discipline, patience, and a refusal to look away from complexity. He writes with the conviction that democracy depends on the continuous work of understanding. 🧵 New on Etched in Marble: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

Rep. Brian Mast says Trump is developing "concepts of operations" for Venezuela

TODAY! Cafecito and reception at @ascoa.bsky.social, with @vickymurillo.bsky.social and @patricionavia.bsky.social, who will reflect on the results of #Argentina's midterms and look ahead to #Chile's general #election. RSVP at ascoa.my.site.com/LightningMem...

Aftenposten trykket kronikken jeg skrev om dette: www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

Amen!

Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)! epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

The Norwegian Humanist Association has awarded Bjørn Johan Berger a prize for his relentless work against Russian propaganda and Russian attempts to frame the narrative in the public discourse in Norway. He's been at it since 2014.

There is a surprisingly high level of support for a US military intervention in Venezuela, particularly in the Andes and Brazil, where over half the population supports the idea. I'm not saying this to defend it, just to show that conventional wisdom is likely off.

We're hiring a Lecturer in Political Science @vuamsterdam.bsky.social (deadline Nov 24): 👉 werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/le...

To this day I’m haunted by what could have been. This clip describes a missed opportunity, but I couldn’t do it alone. Be sure to get The Last Republican on demand now!

Although an island of stability and democracy in a region often short of both, Costa Ricans’ faith in government is declining as the challenge of financing its costly welfare state grows. This democratic stalwart is no longer immune to the appeal of populism. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

Jevnt! Sentrumspartiet D66 leder i valgdagsmålingen, men det er svært smale marginer. (skjermdump herfra: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...)

Check out my new piece -> A New Age of Crypto-Authoritarianism in Current History. It is now open access! online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...

Earlier this month, 60 Minutes obtained a rare visa from Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s dictator. We packed our bags for Caracas and found a country on the brink. 60 Minutes, tonight. cbsn.ws/48OGkcu

"Eighty nine percent of Cuban households live in extreme poverty, seven in ten citizens skip meals, hospitals lack antibiotics, and the country endures daily blackouts...Yet GAESA holds more reserves than several Latin American nations combined."

📣 New chapter 🌟 👥 Arjan Schakel & Michaël Tatham 📘 Multilevel territorial governance 📚 Handbook of Territorial Governance, Giancarlo Cotella & Umberto Janin Rivolin (eds.), Edward Elgar 🔗 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

📣 New chapter 🌟 👥 Dag Arne Christensen & Kristin Strømsnes 📘 Political Participation and Voter Turnout Inequalities in Norway 📚 The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch 🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

📣 New chapter 🌟 👥 Staffan Kumlin & Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social 📘 Political Trust in Norway: A Large but Lopsided Research Field 📚 The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch 🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

📣 New chapter 🌟 👥 Mari S. Helliesen, Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social & Yvette Peters 📘 The Fairest of Them All? Political Representation and Equality in Norway 📚 The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch 🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

📣 New chapter 🌟 👥 Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social & Idunn Nørbech @norbidunn.bsky.social 📘 Public Policymaking and Stakeholder Consultations in Norway 📚 The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch 🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

📣 New chapter 🌟 👥 Torvald Falch & Per Selle 📘 Indigenous Policies: Sámi System Building through Internationalization and Legalization 📚 The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch 🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Institutions, Policies, and Actors (IPA) research group meeting today: Silvana Târlea, ZHAW, presenting the paper “From presence to participation – What explains parties’ active participation in UN climate negotiations?”