Leiv Marsteintredet
@leivm.bsky.social
Professor and Head of Department of Comparative politics, University of Bergen. Tweet mostly about Latin America. Personal account
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Ecuador sparks trade war with Colombia using security issues as pretext, with ideological tensions between Petro & Noboa stoked by Trump as key driving force
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Ecuador desata una disputa comercial con Colombia por la delincuencia en la frontera | International Crisis Group
La experta de Crisis Group Glaeldys González Calanche explica la inesperada disputa comercial entre Ecuador y Colombia, supuestamente por la situación de seguridad en su frontera compartida.
www.crisisgroup.org
January 24, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Ecuador sparks trade war with Colombia using security issues as pretext, with ideological tensions between Petro & Noboa stoked by Trump as key driving force
www.crisisgroup.org/es/alr/latin...
www.crisisgroup.org/es/alr/latin...
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🇻🇪 Las perspectivas esperanzadoras sobre la economía en la Venezuela sin Maduro están atadas a reformas legales que el chavismo emprende con rapidez. El proyecto de reforma de ley de hidrocarburos ha entrado en discusión en la Asamblea
El chavismo se abre a la privatización del petróleo con la reforma de ley de hidrocarburos
La propuesta fue aprobada en la Asamblea en la primera de las dos discusiones correspondientes. La oposición reclamó la falta de debate
dozz.es
January 23, 2026 at 1:32 AM
🇻🇪 Las perspectivas esperanzadoras sobre la economía en la Venezuela sin Maduro están atadas a reformas legales que el chavismo emprende con rapidez. El proyecto de reforma de ley de hidrocarburos ha entrado en discusión en la Asamblea
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USA vil ikke få noen militære, økonomiske eller politiske gevinster av å overta Grønland, sier Sampols Aaron Spitzer @aaronjohnspitzer.bsky.social. Les hans analyser på UiB Aktuelt 👇
– Ingen hadde snakket om Grønland om det ikke hadde vært for Trump
– Interessen for Grønland er en besettelse for Trump, sier Aaron John Spitzer, førsteamanuensis i arktisk politikk ved UiB.
www.uib.no
January 8, 2026 at 5:35 PM
USA vil ikke få noen militære, økonomiske eller politiske gevinster av å overta Grønland, sier Sampols Aaron Spitzer @aaronjohnspitzer.bsky.social. Les hans analyser på UiB Aktuelt 👇
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Stemningen er satt. Klar for Aarebrotforelesningen 2026.
January 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Stemningen er satt. Klar for Aarebrotforelesningen 2026.
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When making asylum decisions, is it worse to deny protection to someone who needs it or to grant it to someone who does not?
✍ Cornelius Cappelen, Hakan G. Sicakkan & Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem @sampol.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
✍ Cornelius Cappelen, Hakan G. Sicakkan & Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem @sampol.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
What do citizens think about mistakes in asylum decisions?
New research from 26 countries explores whether citizens find it worse to wrongly grant or wrongly deny asylum protection to those in need.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 9:44 AM
When making asylum decisions, is it worse to deny protection to someone who needs it or to grant it to someone who does not?
✍ Cornelius Cappelen, Hakan G. Sicakkan & Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem @sampol.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
✍ Cornelius Cappelen, Hakan G. Sicakkan & Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem @sampol.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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A Swede has been assigned to the difficult task to explain to Mr Trump that Norway and Denmark are two different countries!
a cartoon chef says yorn desh born while holding a pan
ALT: a cartoon chef says yorn desh born while holding a pan
media.tenor.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:15 PM
A Swede has been assigned to the difficult task to explain to Mr Trump that Norway and Denmark are two different countries!
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Ikke bruk KI når du skriver jobbsøknad! Ikke én gang til struktur! Når man sitter med 70 kliss like, generiske og tamme – men korrekt disponerte søknader, som alle hevder at kandidaten kan alt som står i stillingsutlysningen, så er det de menneskelige, sårbare og ukorrekte som skiller seg ut!
January 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Ikke bruk KI når du skriver jobbsøknad! Ikke én gang til struktur! Når man sitter med 70 kliss like, generiske og tamme – men korrekt disponerte søknader, som alle hevder at kandidaten kan alt som står i stillingsutlysningen, så er det de menneskelige, sårbare og ukorrekte som skiller seg ut!
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Terrific syllabus language about the dangers of Generative AI
January 17, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Terrific syllabus language about the dangers of Generative AI
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I wanted to make a thread about the useful analyses coming out about the situation in Venezuela, but there is a lot, and everyday new things come out.
It may be more useful to share some of the existing analysis of how we got here. Books in no particular order and on various themes/issues...
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It may be more useful to share some of the existing analysis of how we got here. Books in no particular order and on various themes/issues...
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January 17, 2026 at 10:37 PM
I wanted to make a thread about the useful analyses coming out about the situation in Venezuela, but there is a lot, and everyday new things come out.
It may be more useful to share some of the existing analysis of how we got here. Books in no particular order and on various themes/issues...
🧵
It may be more useful to share some of the existing analysis of how we got here. Books in no particular order and on various themes/issues...
🧵
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Today, the EU and Mercosur take a huge leap forward.
With this Agreement, we are not creating spheres of influence, but spheres of shared prosperity.
For more than 700 million citizens. For thousands of companies. For our joint future.
Together, we are stronger.
With this Agreement, we are not creating spheres of influence, but spheres of shared prosperity.
For more than 700 million citizens. For thousands of companies. For our joint future.
Together, we are stronger.
January 17, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Today, the EU and Mercosur take a huge leap forward.
With this Agreement, we are not creating spheres of influence, but spheres of shared prosperity.
For more than 700 million citizens. For thousands of companies. For our joint future.
Together, we are stronger.
With this Agreement, we are not creating spheres of influence, but spheres of shared prosperity.
For more than 700 million citizens. For thousands of companies. For our joint future.
Together, we are stronger.
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🚨We have a set of very nice PhD scholarships available at King’s College London’s Department of Political Economy 👨🎓 👩🏫
Candidates free to develop their own proposal within political science, communication, Econ etc.
⁉️Questions welcome
Happy if you have the option to share the call 🙏
Candidates free to develop their own proposal within political science, communication, Econ etc.
⁉️Questions welcome
Happy if you have the option to share the call 🙏
PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Programme - PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:23 PM
🚨We have a set of very nice PhD scholarships available at King’s College London’s Department of Political Economy 👨🎓 👩🏫
Candidates free to develop their own proposal within political science, communication, Econ etc.
⁉️Questions welcome
Happy if you have the option to share the call 🙏
Candidates free to develop their own proposal within political science, communication, Econ etc.
⁉️Questions welcome
Happy if you have the option to share the call 🙏
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Foro Penal has confirmed the release of Yevhenii in #Venezuela. Good news! #QueSeanTodos
🚨 #Venezuela: Yevhenii Trush, from #Ukraine, has been forcibly disappeared for one year. Venezuelan authorities took him on #Oct20 2024 and his family has not stopped searching for him since then.
We demand to know where he is and how he is, and that he be released immediately!
We demand to know where he is and how he is, and that he be released immediately!
January 17, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Foro Penal has confirmed the release of Yevhenii in #Venezuela. Good news! #QueSeanTodos
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These are absolutely monstrous people
"Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"
"Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:04 PM
These are absolutely monstrous people
"Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"
"Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"
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Vi kan ikke få til alt, men vi kan vel i det minste presse politikere og offentlige etater bort fra nazi- og overgrepsreiret til Elon Musk. #droppX
January 13, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Vi kan ikke få til alt, men vi kan vel i det minste presse politikere og offentlige etater bort fra nazi- og overgrepsreiret til Elon Musk. #droppX
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On Ukraine’s cultural history and the conditions under which it lived and developed - and still lives and develops. Ellen Rutten and I joined forces to write a longread for the Dutch magazine De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl
Essay | Door de Russische oorlog is er nu, eindelijk, internationale aandacht voor een blinde vlek: de Oekraïense cultuur. Wat hadden kunstenaars nog meer gemaakt als ze niet waren vermoord, onderdrukt of het zwijgen opgelegd door het sovjetregime?
Lang zat er een Oekraïne-vormig gat in de cultuurcanon, en dat had alles te maken met Russische onderdrukking
Door de Russische oorlog is er nu, eindelijk, internationale aandacht voor een blinde vlek: de Oekraïense cultuur. Wat hadden kunstenaars nog meer gemaakt als ze niet waren vermoord, onderdrukt of…
buff.ly
January 13, 2026 at 10:17 AM
On Ukraine’s cultural history and the conditions under which it lived and developed - and still lives and develops. Ellen Rutten and I joined forces to write a longread for the Dutch magazine De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl
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El Salvador approved two constitutional reforms that eliminate the minimum budget for the Judiciary and modify the term of electoral magistrates. In a year, the ruling party has made six reforms to the Constitution that weaken balances.
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The Bukele Method of Changing the Constitution
El Salvador approved two constitutional reforms that eliminate the minimum budget for the Judiciary and modify the term of office for electoral magistrates. In less than a year, the ruling party has…
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January 12, 2026 at 11:00 PM
El Salvador approved two constitutional reforms that eliminate the minimum budget for the Judiciary and modify the term of electoral magistrates. In a year, the ruling party has made six reforms to the Constitution that weaken balances.
beta.elfaro.net/en/el-salvad...
beta.elfaro.net/en/el-salvad...
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A US military strike on #Venezuela and mounting pressure on Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico signal a return to coercive power politics. 10 things to watch in #LatinAmerica this year - outlined in the latest #GIGAFocus by @berthoffmann.bsky.social.
➡️ Read now: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...
➡️ Read now: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...
January 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
A US military strike on #Venezuela and mounting pressure on Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico signal a return to coercive power politics. 10 things to watch in #LatinAmerica this year - outlined in the latest #GIGAFocus by @berthoffmann.bsky.social.
➡️ Read now: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...
➡️ Read now: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...
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Bukele bet everything on Trump coming back in power. This year, amid shady deals with the White House, he enacted every authoritarian excess he desires, standing at the side of the far-right U.S. president. #StoryOfTheYear beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
Bukele in the Shadow of Trump
In the early days of the last Democratic administration, relations between Bukele and Washington deteriorated to the point that the U.S. was comparing him to Hugo Chávez. The Salvadoran president bet…
beta.elfaro.net
January 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Bukele bet everything on Trump coming back in power. This year, amid shady deals with the White House, he enacted every authoritarian excess he desires, standing at the side of the far-right U.S. president. #StoryOfTheYear beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
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Delcy Rodríguez's role as Venezuela's acting president is an impossible balancing act: satisfy Trump's demands, maintain support from the Chavista coalition, and keep alliances with China, Cuba, Iran, and Russia.
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Delcy Rodríguez’s untenable balancing act
Venezuela’s new acting president must choose between accommodating the Trump administration’s demands and preserving unity among the regime’s Chavista base.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Delcy Rodríguez's role as Venezuela's acting president is an impossible balancing act: satisfy Trump's demands, maintain support from the Chavista coalition, and keep alliances with China, Cuba, Iran, and Russia.
www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/d...
@atlanticcouncil.bsky.social
www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/d...
@atlanticcouncil.bsky.social
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Donald Trump hopes to get Venezuela's oil flowing again, but this will not come cheap. Tripling production, from 1 million to 3 million barrels of oil a day, would cost an estimated $183 billion.
US control of Venezuela’s oil may not be the bonanza that Trump expects
Robust long-term oil demand is needed to justify significant investment, but is called into question by the growing popularity of electric vehicles.
www.chathamhouse.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Donald Trump hopes to get Venezuela's oil flowing again, but this will not come cheap. Tripling production, from 1 million to 3 million barrels of oil a day, would cost an estimated $183 billion.
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Pumping heavy, sour crude in Venezuela to sell at a discount looks less appealing when companies can tap lighter, sweeter stuff in next-door Guyana
Venezuela presents a big headache for big oil
It has been decades since the industry relished foreign-policy entanglements
econ.st
January 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Pumping heavy, sour crude in Venezuela to sell at a discount looks less appealing when companies can tap lighter, sweeter stuff in next-door Guyana
Trenger dere kompetent, faktabasert kunnskap om Grønland og USAs (eller egentlig Trumps) interesser i øya, les @aaronjohnspitzer.bsky.social sin analyse.
USA vil ikke få noen militære, økonomiske eller politiske gevinster av å overta Grønland, sier Sampols Aaron Spitzer @aaronjohnspitzer.bsky.social. Les hans analyser på UiB Aktuelt 👇
– Ingen hadde snakket om Grønland om det ikke hadde vært for Trump
– Interessen for Grønland er en besettelse for Trump, sier Aaron John Spitzer, førsteamanuensis i arktisk politikk ved UiB.
www.uib.no
January 8, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Trenger dere kompetent, faktabasert kunnskap om Grønland og USAs (eller egentlig Trumps) interesser i øya, les @aaronjohnspitzer.bsky.social sin analyse.
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This is just the motion to discharge, in one of two houses of Congress—but as an expression of doubt/concern about the Venezuela intervention, it is unexpected and a big deal.
The Rs may be Collins, Hawley, Murkowski, Paul, and Young, but not 100% sure.
The Rs may be Collins, Hawley, Murkowski, Paul, and Young, but not 100% sure.
January 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM
This is just the motion to discharge, in one of two houses of Congress—but as an expression of doubt/concern about the Venezuela intervention, it is unexpected and a big deal.
The Rs may be Collins, Hawley, Murkowski, Paul, and Young, but not 100% sure.
The Rs may be Collins, Hawley, Murkowski, Paul, and Young, but not 100% sure.
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Does party switching pay off for MPs? Not really, but... For details see our #instaparty paper w @sonagolder.bsky.social, @ibenskasr.bsky.social & @paulinasl.bsky.social just out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
January 7, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Does party switching pay off for MPs? Not really, but... For details see our #instaparty paper w @sonagolder.bsky.social, @ibenskasr.bsky.social & @paulinasl.bsky.social just out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
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📣 New article
👥 @allansikk.bsky.social @sonagolder.bsky.social @ibenskasr.bsky.social @paulinasl.bsky.social
👉 Does switching pay off? The impact of parliamentary party instability on individual electoral performance
📗 Open access in Electoral Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
👥 @allansikk.bsky.social @sonagolder.bsky.social @ibenskasr.bsky.social @paulinasl.bsky.social
👉 Does switching pay off? The impact of parliamentary party instability on individual electoral performance
📗 Open access in Electoral Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
January 8, 2026 at 12:03 PM
📣 New article
👥 @allansikk.bsky.social @sonagolder.bsky.social @ibenskasr.bsky.social @paulinasl.bsky.social
👉 Does switching pay off? The impact of parliamentary party instability on individual electoral performance
📗 Open access in Electoral Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
👥 @allansikk.bsky.social @sonagolder.bsky.social @ibenskasr.bsky.social @paulinasl.bsky.social
👉 Does switching pay off? The impact of parliamentary party instability on individual electoral performance
📗 Open access in Electoral Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...