Jørgen Jensehaugen

Researcher

Jørgen Jensehaugen
Jørgen Jensehaugen left PRIO in 2011. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

Research Interests

The Zionist Movement and Israel’s efforts and success in the period 1947-1949 to obtain international support for the establishment of a state and the gaining of UN membership.

Background

Working experience:

February 2011 - : Researcher at PRIO.

2010: Board member of the Nordic Society for Middle East Studies

January 2010 - : Editor, Babylon, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier

January - May 2010: Booknote Editor, Journal of Peace Research.

2009 - 2010: Guest lecturer at the University of Oslo: "Neighbourhood Bully? The Great Powers and the Middle East Since 1945"

December 2008 - : Research Assistant for Professor Hilde Henriksen Waage

August 2008 - February 2010: Managing editor, Journal of Peace Research

May 2008 - January 2010: Managing Editor, Babylon, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier
January-July 2007: Trainee at the Norwegian Embassy in Amman, Jordan.
2004 - 2007: Board member of Spire, The Development Fund Youth, a Norwegian NGO.
2003 - 2006: Assistant Editor at Solum Forlag, Solum Publishing House.

 

Education:

2006-2008: MA in History at the University of Oslo (UiO)
2002-2005: BA in History at the University of Oslo (UiO)
1999-2002: International Baccalaureate (IB), St. Stephen's School of Rome. Received the Bilingual Diploma.

 

Languages spoken:

Bilingual Norwegian and English.

Can speak Italian.

Basic Arabic
 

 

Events

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All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Heian-Engdal, Marte; Jørgen Jensehaugen & Hilde Henriksen Waage (2013) ‘Finishing the Enterprise’: Israel's Admission to the United Nations, International History Review 35(3): 465–485.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen; Marte Heian-Engdal & Hilde Henriksen Waage (2012) Securing the State: From Zionist Ideology to Israeli Statehood, Diplomacy & Statecraft 23(2): 280–303.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen & Hilde Henriksen Waage (2012) Coercive Diplomacy: Israel, Transjordan and the UN—a Triangular Drama Revisited, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 39(1): 79–100.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2009) Flyktningnasjonalisme: Fra Nakba til PLO [Refugee Nationalism: From the Nakba to the PLO], Babylon 7(2): 22–33.

Non-refereed Journal Article

Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2009) Når blir massevold politisk? - 1948 og den palestinske katastrofen [When Does Mass Violence Become Political? - 1948 and the Palestinian Catastrophe], Etter Lemkin - Tidsskrift for studier av Folkemord og Politisk Massevold 1(2): 8–18.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2008) Al-Nakba: Eksistensiell Historieskrivning [al-Nakba: Existential History], Babylon - Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier 6(2): 100–107.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2008) Hvor ble det av Palestina? [Where did Palestine go?], Fortid 5(3): 35–40.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2008) Historieskrivning som politikk i Israel-Palestinakonflikten [History as a Political Arena in the Palestine-Israeli Conflict], Fortid(1): 22–25.

Popular Article

Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2011) Misbrukte muligheter [Abused possibilities], Dagsavisen, 20 June.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2011) Avkledde palestinere [Palestinians Revealed], Dagsavisen, 27 January.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2011) Palestinsk ettergivenhet, israelsk arroganse [Palestinian Appeasement, Israeli Arrogance], Nyemeninger.no, 25 January.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2009) Ulven tar av seg fåreklærne [Dr Jekyll Shows his Hyde], Palestinabladet, 29 December.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2009) Abbas: Offer for fredsprisen [Abbas: A Victim of the Peace Prize], Dagsavisen, 23 November.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2009) Kan Obama bli sin pris verdig? [Can Obama Become Worthy of His Prize?], Dagsavisen, 9 October.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2009) Påstått isfront – Hva ligger i motsetningene mellom Obama og Netanyahu? [Cold Front – What Does the Face-off Between Obama and Netanyahu Imply?], Palestinabladet, 7 September.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2009) Historieskrivning som politikk [History as Politics], Klassekampen, 27 January.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2008) Hva er det med Gaza? [What is it with Gaza?], Palestinabladet, 30 December.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2008) Israels verste venn [Israel's Worst Friend], Aftenposten, 25 September.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2008) Ofrenes skyld – En myte blir født [Blaming the Victims – The Birth of the Broadcast Myth], Palestinabladet, 8 May.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2008) Radikal Mytedannelse [Radical Mythology], Morgenbladet, 25 April.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2008) Israel: - En Apartheidstat? [Israel: - An Apartheid State?], Rødt Press, 19 February.

Master Thesis

Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2008) Friendship Reanimated: The Israeli-Transjordanian Armistice Negotiations 1948–49. MA thesis, Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and History, University of Oslo, Oslo.

Book Review

Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2010) Review of Øystein Sørensen, ed., Drømmen om det fullkomne samfunn [Dreaming of the Complete Society], in Salongen.no .
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2009) Review of Mahmoud Darwish, ed., Det er en sang, det er en sang [Poetry of Longing from the Poet of Exile], in Minerva .
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2008) Review of Sa’di , Ahmad; & Lila Abu-Lughod, eds, Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory, in Palestinabladet 13(1): 46–47.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2007) Review of Mearsheimer, John; & Stephen M. Walt, eds, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, in Palestina 12(4): 30–31.