Asle Toje
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Asle Toje | |
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 Asle Toje Lecturing at the Sorbonne, Paris | |
| Born | February 16, 1974 |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
| Philosophical work | |
| School | Neoclassical realism |
| Institutions | Norwegian Nobel Committee |
| Main interests | International relations theory |
| Website | Official website |
Asle Toje (born February 16, 1974) is the Deputy Leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (2018-2029).[1] He is a foreign policy scholar and was Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute from 2009 until he joined the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.[2] Toje is a regular contributor to the Norwegian foreign policy debate, including as a regular columnist in the Dagens Næringsliv, Minerva. In the Norwegian foreign policy discourse he has been a proponent of democracy, market economy, the rule of law, and conservatism[citation needed]. Toje has in recent years spent most of his time on issues at the intersection of nuclear disarmament, peace and geopolitics[citation needed].
Asle Toje was educated at universities in Oslo and Tromsø before going on to study international relations (Dr. Phil.) at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 2006.[2] In 2010, he published the book The European Union as a Small Power: After the Post-Cold War.[3]
