Author Archives: Dr Gerard Toal

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About Dr Gerard Toal

Irish born academic living in Washington DC researching geopolitical competition and territorial conflicts in post-Communist Europe. Author of CRITICAL GEOPOLITICS (1996), BOSNIA REMADE (w C Dahlman) and NEAR ABROAD: PUTIN, THE WEST AND THE CONTEST OVER UKRAINE AND THE CAUCASUS (Oxford University Press, 2017).

After the ASN: what’s next

The Association for the Study of Nationalities conference in New York is one of the best conferences out there for students of the intersections of geopolitics, identity and conflict. This year’s conference was excellent: very stimulating panels and sessions with … Continue reading

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Can Nagorny Karabakh benefit from Bosnia’s experience with return and restitution?

This question is the subject of a paper I have written for Conciliation Resources publication Accord which is devoted to the question of ‘return and its alternatives’ in that conflict. The issue features analysts based in Yerevan, Stepanakert, and Baku. … Continue reading

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Is Bosnia Unsustainable?

I have recently written an article, together with a Ph D student here Adis Maksic, with this title. It appears in the current edition of the journal Eurasian Geography and Economics. The print version of the journal has a mistake … Continue reading

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Book Presentation

Carl Dahlman and I present Bosnia Remade at the Wilson Center this Wednesday 9th March. For details click here

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The Arab Spring?

This op ed is currently published in the Association of American Geographers Newsletter. The street protests in Tunis that lead to the ouster of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, an autocrat who governed Tunisia since 1987, have emboldened disenfranchised … Continue reading

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European Affairs

I am interviewed in the latest edition of the online journal European Affairs from the European Institute on Bosnia-Hercegovina. http://www.europeaninstitute.org/European-Affairs/

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Talk at Columbia

John O’Loughlin and I will talk on our 2010 social survey in Abkhazia at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University on the 17th of February. The talk is scheduled from 4 pm to 6 pm in the Garden Room, Faculty … Continue reading

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A New Web Site

It has taken too long but I’ve finally managed, thanks to the joys of a sabbatical, to construct a new web site. I have done so as Bosnia Remade finally appears, another much delayed project that is finally reaching fruition. … Continue reading

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