Category Archives: nationalism

Fears and Fantasies about the “Flesh of the Nation”

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Dr Gerard Toal

Yesterday Adis Maksic defended his Ph D dissertation “Mobilizing for Ethnic Violence? Ethno-National Political Parties and the Dynamics of Ethno-Politicization.” Adis is a Sarajevo native who was fortunately able to come to the United States with his family after his family suffered a … Continue reading →

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Global Conflicts. My Online Course Syllabus

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Dr Gerard Toal

    I’ve been teaching ‘global conflicts’ at Virginia Tech for over twenty years, initially as an undergraduate course called “Geography of Global Conflicts.” In 1995, I offered the course online for the first time. The course has evolved considerably … Continue reading →

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My interview with Bosnia’s Dnevni Avaz

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Dr Gerard Toal

Just after my return from Ireland two weeks ago, the largest daily newspaper in Bosnia-Herezegovina, Sarajevo-based Dnevni Avaz, got in contact for a feature interview in their weekend supplement. The resultant feature, entitled “Bosnia is Not a Failed State” was published on … Continue reading →

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The PKK, Kurdish Nationalism and the Future of Turkey, 7 November 2013: Conference Program

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Dr Gerard Toal

Kurdish Conference Program available here International Conference The PKK, Kurdish Nationalism and the Future of Turkey Thursday November 7, 2013 VIRGINIA TECH NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION 1021 PRINCE STREET ALEXANDRIA, VA 22314 RSVP IS REQUIRED: kurdishandturkish@yahoo.com Tel: 202-378-8606 kurdishandturkish@yahoo.com http://turkeyandkurds.blogspot.com/ Organized … Continue reading →

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Inside South Ossetia article published

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Dr Gerard Toal

The article “Inside South Ossetia: a survey of attitudes in a de facto state” has just been published by Post-Soviet Affairs (now owned by Taylor & Francis). This article is based on a research field trip conducted in 2010 and … Continue reading →

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The Irish-Japanese Axis

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Dr Gerard Toal

At a session on De Facto state regimes at last month’s ASN, Tom de Waal wittily remarked on how there appears to be an Irish-Japanese axis of researchers studying these oddities of the world political map. Looking at the presenters … Continue reading →

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The Improvised State

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Dr Gerard Toal

Alex Jeffrey is a lecturer in Geography at Cambridge University in the (maybe not so) United Kingdom (what say you Scotland?). He is the author of a theoretically innovative new book called The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in … Continue reading →

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Conference Season

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Dr Gerard Toal

Each year different tribes of academic laborers have their trade shows. This laborer is attending two virtually back to back, the Association of American Geographers meeting in Los Angeles and then the Association for the Study of Nationalities conference in … Continue reading →

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Reversing Ethnic Cleansing: Is It Possible Peacefully?

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Dr Gerard Toal

On 10 March I gave the closing keynote at the 6th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS). The topic of my talk was Reversing Ethnic Cleansing: Bosnia’s Experience and Protracted Displacement in the … Continue reading →

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The Rhetorical Politics of Milorad Dodik

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Dr Gerard Toal

My essay on the former prime minister and current president of Republika Srpska has just been published in the Discussion section of the journal Nationalities Papers, a Taylor and Francis journal (41, 1: 160-204). I’m grateful to the departing editor … Continue reading →

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