Asle Toje, Date of Birth

Asle Toje

foreign policy scholar

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1974

Profession: political scientist, researcher

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Asle Toje (born February 16, 1974) is a Norwegian foreign policy scholar and commentator.
He is a former Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and a current member of the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Toje is a regular contributor to the Norwegian foreign policy debate, including as a regular columnist in the Dagens Næringsliv and Morgenbladet.
Toje has family roots on the island of Utsira.
He grew up at Byremo and in Drøbak. Toje is a proponent of Neoclassical realism.
In the Norwegian foreign policy discourse he has been a proponent of limited government, a free market economy, and social conservatism.
He has been a spokesman for a strong defense and close ties to U.S.
foreign policy in the same tradition as Radoslaw Sikorski and Anders Fogh Rasmussen.