Asle Toje (born February 16, 1974) is the Deputy Leader of the

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(2018-2023). He is a foreign policy scholar and was Research Director at the

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from 2009 until he joined the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. Toje is a regular contributor to the Norwegian foreign policy debate, including as a regular columnist in the

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. In the Norwegian foreign policy discourse he has been a proponent of democracy, market economy, the rule of law, and

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. Toje has in recent years spent most of his time on issues at the intersection of nuclear disarmament, peace and geopolitics.

Academic career

Asle Toje was educated at universities in

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and

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before going on to study

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( Dr. Phil.) at

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, where he graduated in 2006. According to his own statement, Toje belongs to the

neoclassical realism Neoclassical realism is a theory of international relations and an approach to foreign policy analysis. Initially coined by Gideon Rose in a 1998 '' World Politics'' review article, it is a combination of classical realist and neorealist &n ...

school in.international political theory As an academic, Toje is best known for having further developed the "transatlantic bargain" thesis, in which he argues that the US presence through NATO and European integration in the form of the EU constitutes a so-called "integrated complex". In 2010, he published the book The European Union as a Small Power: After the Post-Cold War.

Bibliography

*'' Gullbrikkespillet: Et Europa i ruiner'' (Oslo, Dreyer, 2020) *'' The Causes of Peace: What We Know Now'' (Ed. w. Bård Nicholas Vik Steen, Houston, Nobel Press, 2019) *'' Will China's Rise Be Peaceful?: Security, Stability, and Legitimacy '' (Ed., xford University Press, Ed. 2018) *'' Jernburet – Liberalismens krise'' (Oslo, Dreyer Forlag, 2014) *'' Rødt, Hvitt & Blått – Om demokratiet i Europa'' (Oslo, Dreyer Forlag, 2012) *'' Neoclassical Realism in European Politics'' Ed. w, B.Kunz (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012) *'' The European Union as a small power - after the post Cold War'' (London, Palgrave / Macmillan, 2010) *''America, the EU and Strategic Culture: Renegotiating the Transatlantic Bargain'' (London, Routledge, 2008)

References

External links

Tojes Blog

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