Jørgen Jensehaugen

Senior Researcher

Jørgen Jensehaugen
Email: jorjen@prio.org
Mobile phone: +47 99 59 77 85
Twitter: @JJensehaugen

Research Interests


I mainly research the Arab-Israeli conflict with a focus on the various diplomatic endeavours ranging from the late 1940s up until today. 
I have done research and published on various phases in this history, including:
  • The UN negotiations following the 1948 war 
  • The Zionist movement, and later Israel's, succesful attempt to gain international recognition and UN membership
  • The US lead negotiations during the late 1970s leading to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty
  • The Obama era initiative to reach Israeli-Palestinian peace
  • The history of US Jerusalem policy
A central focus of my research is the lack of Palestinian inclusion in these international approaches to the conflict.

Background

Working experience:

2018 - : Senior Researcher at PRIO

2016-2018: Associate Professor at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

2016 - : Editor of Store Norske Leksikon articles on the Middle East

2011-2016: PhD Candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU

2011: Researcher at PRIO

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

January 2010 -2011 : 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:

2011-2016: PhD in History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

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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Publications

The following publications are specific to the PRIO Middle East Centre. A more complete list is available at www.prio.org.

All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2023) Photographing 1948: Robert Capa’s Absent Palestinians, Journal of Palestine Studies. DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2023.2219031: 1–19.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen & Pinar Tank (2022) Palestinian and Kurdish nationalism: Understanding the ‘politics of the possible’, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 22(3): 219–234.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2021) A Palestinian window of opportunity? The PLO, the US and the Iranian hostage crisis, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 48(4): 596–610.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2020) Terra morata: the West Bank in Menachem Begin’s worldview, Contemporary Levant 5(1): 54–63.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2019) Smokescreen Diplomacy: Excluding the Palestinians by Self-Rule, The Middle East Journal 73(2): 224–241.
Waage, Hilde Henriksen; Marte Heian-Engdal & Jørgen Jensehaugen (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.

MidEast Policy Brief

Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2023) Israel and the Abraham Accords: A Failed Expansion, MidEast Policy Brief, 2. Oslo: PRIO.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2022) Bridge over Troubled Waters: Jordan’s Position in the Middle East, MidEast Policy Brief, 4. Oslo: PRIO.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen; Bruno Oliveira Martins; Hilde Henriksen Waage & Júlia Palik (2020) A House Divided: EU Policy on the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, MidEast Policy Brief, 2. Oslo: PRIO.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2020) Jordan and COVID-19: Effective Response at a High Cost, MidEast Policy Brief, 3. Oslo: PRIO.
Tank, Pinar & Jørgen Jensehaugen (2019) Kurdish and Palestinian Quests for Self-Determination, MidEast Policy Brief, 1. Oslo: PRIO.

Monograph

Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2022) En kort introduksjon til Israel-Palestina-konflikten [A brief introduction to the Israel-Palestine conflict]. Oslo: Cappelen Damm Academisk.

Non-refereed Journal Article

Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2019) Saudi Arabia as a Peace Peddler? The Limits of Riyadh's Influence over Israeli–Palestinian Diplomacy, IAI Commentaries 19(3): 1–4.

Popular Article

Tank, Pinar; Júlia Palik; Jørgen Jensehaugen & Kristian Berg Harpviken (2022) Transactional Engagements: Middle Eastern Responses to the Ukrainian War, PRIO blogs, 24 March.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2020) Hva skal verden gjøre med Israels anneksjon på Vestbredden? [What will the world do about Israel's plan to annex the West Bank?], Aftenposten, 2 June.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2019) How the PLO served U.S. interests during the Iranian hostage crisis, Washington Post, 4 November.

PRIO Report

Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2022) Excluded Palestinians: Mediator Gatekeeping in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, FAIR Case Brief, 2. Oslo: PRIO.

PRIO Paper

Gjerløw, Haakon & Jørgen Jensehaugen (2020) Dealing with COVID-19 in the Middle East, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.

Report - External Series

Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2022) The no-solution limbo of the Israel–Palestine conflict, Dibattito: Il Mediterraneo allargato, una regione in transizione: conflitti, sfide, prospettive. Rome: Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale.
Berg, Kjersti G.; Jørgen Jensehaugen; & Åge A. Tiltnes (2022) UNRWA, funding crisis and the way forward, CMI Report, 4. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI).

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