I work as a researcher at the ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. At ARENA, my main research lies in the field of normative political theory, where my research interests are with issues of global responsibilities relating to distributive and remedial justice, with a particular focus on military and non-military interventions to protect human rights.
Together with Professor James Pattison at the University of Manchester, I am currently working on the AHRC-funded project ‘The Ethics of Responding to Rising Global Authoritarianism’ (ERGA). With ERGA, we aim to understand the ethics of the potential responses to rising global authoritarianism by liberal actors, including individuals, civil society actors, liberal democratic states, and regional and international institutions. It will offer a two-level analysis of both more ideal responses and nonideal responses relevant for an even more problematic global order.
Before taking up my current post, I worked in the project ‘Rule of Law in NAV: Principled Justification’ (RETTS). Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of political science (UiO), funded by the Research Council of Norway. During 2020-21 I was also a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Politics, University of Manchester. My postdoctoral project focused on how states should respond to rights violations in other states, with a special emphasis on non-military interventions in response to rights violations that fall short of mass atrocities. You can read more about it here: ‘Rights-protecting interventionism beyond the use of military force’.
In May 2017 I received my PhD for the dissertation Who Should Intervene? Distributing the duties of humanitarian intervention from the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. My dissertation answers questions such as: What are the most central concerns whe allocating the duties of intervention? Who should commit their military forces to carry out the intervention? How should the economic and material costs of intervention be distributed? Which reforms should be implemented to ensure that the duty to intervene can be effectively discharged and the burdens shared fairly?
You can read more about my research and publications by clicking here.
Email: f.d.hjorthen@arena.uio.no
Photo credits: Tron Trondal (UiO)
