Benedicte Bull is a professor of political science at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Global Sustainability specializing in Latin American political economy, elite dynamics, and global governance. Her work explores the role of elites in shaping democratic and sustainable development, with a particular focus on the relations between international actors and local elites. She has published extensively on Venezuela’s political collapse, focusing particularly on the role of sanctions on elite-relations. She has published eight books on development, Latin American politics and international institutions. Her most recent articles have appeared in Third World Quarterly, New Political Economy, Development & Change, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Current History.

Recent relevant articles:

• Bull, B., & Rosales, A. (2025). Hurting your own allies: The impact of US sanctions towards Venezuela and the fracturing of the wrong coalition. In J. Gordon (Ed.), From Baghdad to Havana: Economic Sanctions and their Predictable Consequences. California University Press.
• Bull, B., Rosales, A., & Sutherland, M. (2025). Authoritarian Capitalism in Venezuela: The Political Economy of Maduro’s Disorderly Liberalization. In J. Polga-Hecimovich & R. Sánchez-Urribarri (Eds.), Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro (pp. 75–93). Routledge.
• Bull, B and A. Rosales (2025), ‘Chinese impact on development in Venezuela: the dynamics of structural stagnation’, New Political Economy, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2025.2531004