Critical Geopoltiics- New Publication: What Did the Donbas Want? The attitudes of ordinary people on the eve of the invasion.
- Will Ukraine Be Forced to Give Up Territory?
- Territorial Taboo or Territorial Trading in the Russian War against Ukraine?
- Oceans Rise Empires Fall is published in the USA
- Text of remarks for Kennan Institute’s “Why Ukraine Matters” series.
- On my new book: Oceans Rise Empires Fall
- Short Public Affairs Articles in 2023.
- Public Opinion in Frontline Ukrainian Cities in 2022
- Six months of bloody war in Ukraine
- New Research: Ukrainian attitudes toward territorial compromises.
Author Archives: Dr Gerard Toal
In the Land of Blood and Honey
I finally managed to see In the Land of Blood and Honey, the directorial and writing debut of Angelina Jolie, and at our wonderful historic neighborhood cinema, the Avalon. There’s nothing like leaving home ten minutes before showtime and walking … Continue reading
Posted in Bosnian war, Current affairs, Gender, Masculinity, Washington D.C.
Tagged Angelina Jolie, Bosnia, film
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Obama’s Freudian Slip: Georgia (Not) On My Mind
The Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is in Washington DC these days, meeting with President Obama at the White House on Monday, talking yesterday at the World Bank, and tomorrow at Georgetown which I plan to attend. A funny thing happened … Continue reading
Posted in Current affairs, Georgia, Obama, Presidency, Putin, Washington D.C.
Tagged democracy, Freudian slip, neuropolitics, Putin, Saakashvili, White House
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Happy Birthday Republika Srpska!
Milorad Dodik, President of the Republika Srpska entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, held a ’20th birthday party’ for the entity on 9 January 2012. That was the date that Radovan Karadzic and the rest of the leadership of the Serb Democratic Party … Continue reading
New Publication on Abkhazia and Georgian IDPs
The current edition of Eurasian Geography and Economics Vol LII, No. 5 (September-October) features a Symposium on Conflict in the Caucasus comprising three research articles. I have written one of these together with Magdalena Frichova Grono, a former Research Associate … Continue reading
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Lecture at my alma mater, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth
This Thursday, 8 December 2011, I am scheduled to give a public lecture as part of the public celebrations surrounding the 40th anniversary of the Geography Department at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. I got my undergraduate degree from … Continue reading
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Harriman Institute conference on the Frozen Conflicts 20 years on
This conference, organized by Alex Cooley and Lincoln Mitchell, featured three excellent panel discussions, all of which were video taped and are now available on Columbia University’s YouTube channel. For Panel 1 click here. I recommend this for those seeking … Continue reading
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Columbia University conference and presentation
Earlier this week, Tom De Waal organized a superb two day conference on the South Caucasus After 20 Years. The sessions were very well attended and the level of analysis critical and realistic, with next to no nationalist posturing or … Continue reading
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ASEEES session on The Localized Geopolitics of Eurasian De Facto States
On Saturday the 19th I presented at the ASEEES on the topic of ‘Contemporary Geopolitical Attitudes in Abkhazia and South Ossetia: Some Survey Evidence’ to an early morning audience of about 30 people. In the next two months I will … Continue reading
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Finding “Lessons” in the Bosnian conflict and elsewhere: the Swanee Hunt event
The book discussion of Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security at the Wilson Center was very well attended. Ambassador Hunt was very dynamic in presentation and we had an excellent discussion of the book. She presented six lessons from … Continue reading
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Forthcoming discussion with Swanee Hunt at Woodrow Wilson Center
I’ve been reading Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security, the new book by Swanee Hunt who served as US Ambassador to Austria during the Bosnian War. She’s done terrific work in bringing gender into the discussion of violence, conflict … Continue reading
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