Asle Toje (b. 1974) is the Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, and a lecturer at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Oslo. Toje’s research interests are found at the intersection of security studies and European studies. Since Toje graduated from Cambridge University in 2006, he has published widely on European security and foreign policy. Among his last works are America, the EU and Strategic Culture (London, Routledge); The European Union as a Small Power (London, Macmillan, 2010) and Neoclassical realism in Europe (Manchester University Press, 2012). He has also authored two monographies in Norwegian on the economic and political crisis in Europe: Rødt, Hvitt & Blått and Jernburet (Dreyer 2012, 2014)