Kjartan Koch Mikalsen is Guest Researcher at ARENA Centre for European Studies and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Nord University. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim.
His main fields of research are political philosophy and legal philosophy with a focus on democratic theory, republican and liberal political thought, and relationships between states. Key publications are ‘In Defense of Kant’s League of States’, in Law and Philosophy, 2011 and ‘Kant and Habermas on International Law’, in Ratio Juris, 2013.