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Jens Stoltenberg

Prime Minister of Norway and NATO Secretary General

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Led Norway’s response to the 2011 Utøya attack, then ran NATO for ten years through Russia’s invasions of Ukraine.

Jens Stoltenberg sits in the near the center part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly state-led and centered on liberty and authority. The clearest positions are strongly institutional on institutions, leaning interventionist on interventionism and leaning globalist on nation. The profile is close to the middle on liberty and authority.

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Where Jens Stoltenberg sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityCentered on liberty and authority
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureSlightly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Jens Stoltenberg

François Hollande President of France, 2012 to 201799%Olaf Scholz Chancellor of Germany, 2021 to 202599%Keir Starmer UK Prime Minister, 2024 to 202699%Josep Borrell EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, 2019 to 202499%Bob Hawke Prime Minister of Australia, 1983 to 199199%Larry Summers American economist and former US Treasury Secretary99%Hillary Clinton US Secretary of State, 2009 to 201399%Donald Tusk Prime Minister of Poland, 2007 to 2014 and 2023 to present99%

People furthest from Jens Stoltenberg

Murray Rothbard American economist, 1926 to 199510%Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 191012%Jair Bolsonaro President of Brazil, 2019 to 202213%Dorothy Day American journalist and Catholic Worker founder, 1897 to 198014%

Political views closest to Jens Stoltenberg

Third Way centrismCombines market economics with moderate social policy and pragmatic problem solving.99%Humanitarian interventionismHolds that outside powers may use force to stop genocide and mass atrocities, even…98%Liberal internationalismBacks a rules-based world order of alliances, trade and institutions to keep the peace.98%European federalismWants Europe's states to pool sovereignty into a shared democratic federation.97%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Washington D.C, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.