Author Archives: Dr Gerard Toal

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

I will be giving a talk at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University on Tuesday 1 November 2011 at noon entitled ‘After Ethnic Cleansing: Bosnian Lessons for the Caucasus?’ I will be following in the footsteps of Milorad Dodik, President … Continue reading →

The distinguished historian Melvyn Leffler presented his latest edited collection (with Jeffrey Legro) at the Woodrow Wilson Center yesterday: In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11 (Cornell UP). It brings together practitioners and academics, policy … Continue reading →

One of the joys, and also frustrations, of living in Washington DC is that there are so many interesting talks going on around town, and so many interesting people to see. Add to that the regular flow of interesting articles … Continue reading →

Over a year ago the British NGO Conciliation Resources asked me to write an essay as a starting point for a track two dialogue among a group of policy scholars from Armenia, Stepanakert and Azerbaijan on the question of ‘return … Continue reading →

On Friday last John O’Loughlin and I talked to a full seminar room at George Washington on our research findings in three of the Eurasian ‘De Facto States’ (the emergent consensual term among academics though this is at variance with … Continue reading →

John O’Loughlin and I will be talking on Friday May 20, 2001 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in the Voesar Conference Room, 1957 E Street, Suite 412 on our research on de facto states. The talk will be a ‘world … Continue reading →