07 September 2006
About Me
My Work
- Trainee Journalist, City University London Division of Journalism
- Parliamentary Researcher, House of Commons
My Favorite Blogs and Websites
- Roy Greenslade, Guardian Media Commentator and Professor at City
- Filip Bondy, Sports Writer, Daily News
- Life on a Scottish Isle
- Central Asia Blog
- Timothy Garton Ash, Commentator
- Central Asia Foreign Policy Blog
- The New Statesman
- College of Staten Island
- Courses Taught:
- Comparative Politics, Introduction to Global Politics
- Fall 2006:
- Comparative Politics (2 Sections), American National Government
- Winter Intersession:
- American National Government
- Spring 2007:
- Introduction to the Political World/Introduction to Comparative Government, American National Government
- Debonair Does Montreal
- Least Developed Countries Show Remarkable Increase in Economic Growth
- Growing International Focus on Preventable Diseases in the World's Poorest Countries
- Is There an End to Poverty in Asia and Africa?
- World Bank Offers Debt Relief to Eleven Nations: Nine are Least Developed Countries
- Raising Awareness and Funds to Combat Malaria in Africa
- Global Fund Calls for New Proposals to Combat AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
- Is There an End to Poverty in Asia and Africa?
- Least Developed Countries Show Remarkable Increase in Economic Growth
- Growing International Focus on Preventable Diseases in the World's Poorest Countries
- African Union and FAO Escalate Efforts to Curb the Spread of Avian Flu in Africa
- Starving in Zambia
- Americans are in Support of Increasing Development Aid to Africa, National Survey Reveals
- At WTO Talks, Developed Countries Struggle to Tangibly Assist Vulnerable Countries
- Aid-for-Trade Arrangement Seen as Detrimental to Vulnerable Countries
- IMF Declares Debt Relief for Vulnerable Countries
- Avian Flu Pandemic Could Kill 150 Million People Worldwide
- Hong Kong Talks May Prove Disappointing to Developing Nations
- WTO Reaches Agreement to Curb Agricultural Subsidies
- UN Introduces $100 Laptop for Third World Children
- Political Repression and the Islamicization of Politics in Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec 2005
- Devolution of Power to Scotland: A Case Study in the Diffusion of Ethnic Conflict, London School of Economics, London, UK, Spring 2003
- Censorship: A Comparative Case Study of Speech Freedom in Ukraine and Belarus, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, Winter 2002
- The Lighthouse by P.D. James
- Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya by Anna Politovskaya
- Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller
- The Zanzibar Chest by Aidan Hartley
- The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
- The Good German by Joseph Kanon
- Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
- A Little History of the World by E.F. Gombrich
- Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
- A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
- Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
- Prague by Arthur Phillips
- No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
- The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy by Robert Kaplan
- How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer
- Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
- How Democratic is the American Constitution? by Robert A. Dahl
- The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
- Sylvanus Now by Donna Morrissey
- Central Asia's Second Chance by Martha Brill Olcott
- The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss
- Marley & Me by John Grogan
- Introduction to the Legal System of the European Union by Philip Raworth
- Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
- The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji
- Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
- Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran by Elaine Sciolino
- Africa Since Independence by Colin Legum
- The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland by Karl E. Meyer
- Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
- Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 by Salman Rushdie
- The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
- Reporting the Universe by E.L. Doctorow
- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
- Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
- Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
- Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
- Echoes Down the Corridor by Arthur Miller
- The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
- Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xin Ran
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- Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Jax Jacobsen is a journalist focused on the mining sector for SNL Financial, who has also published in The Guardian, The New Statesman, LSE Review of Books, Red Pepper, and other publications.
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