Gerard Toal ( ga, Gearóid Ó Tuathail; born 1962 in the

Republic of Ireland Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern ...

Hague, Euan (2004): Gearóid Ó Tuathail (Gerard Toal). In: Hubbard, Phil, Rob Kitchin and Gill Valentine (Eds.): Key thinkers on space and place. London: Sage Pubn Inc. pp. 226–230.) is Professor of Government and International Affairs at

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six regi ...

Career

Toal holds a B.A. in

History History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

and

Geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, an ...

from

National University of Ireland, Maynooth The National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM; ga, Ollscoil na hÉireann Mhá Nuad), commonly known as Maynooth University (MU), is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. It ...

, an M.A. in Geography from the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

(1984), and a Ph.D. in Political Geography from Syracuse University (1989). He served for ten years as an Assistant Professor of Geography at

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six re ...

in Blacksburg, before establishing the Government and International Affairs program in th
School of Public and International Affairs.
He has held fellowships at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, and the Center for International Studies at the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...

. Toal has authored, co-authored, and/or edited eight books. ''Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal'', co-authored with Dr Carl Dahlman, won the Julian Minghi Book Prize from the Political Geography Specialty Group. ''Near Abroad: Putin, the West, and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus'' won th
ENMISA Distinguished Book Award
from the International Studies Association in 2019. He has served as an associate editor for the academic journals '' Geopolitics'' and ''

Eurasian Geography and Economics ''Eurasian Geography and Economics'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering economic and political geography as well as macroeconomics of the Eurasian continent. It primarily covers geography also publishes interdisciplinary works. ...

.'' He currently serves on the editorial board of '' Political Geography'', ''

'', ''

Nationalities Papers ''Nationalities Papers'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press for the Association for the Study of Nationalities. The editor-in-chief is Harris Mylonas (George Washington University). It publishes articles on ...

'' and '' Communist and Post-Communist Studies''. His research specializations include

critical geopolitics The basic concept behind critical geopolitics is that intellectuals of statecraft construct ideas about places; these ideas have influence and reinforce their political behaviors and policy choices, and these ideas affect how people process their o ...

nationalism Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...

, political geography, post-Communism,

globalization Globalization, or globalisation (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English; American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), see spelling differences), is the process of foreign relation ...

territorial disputes A territorial dispute or boundary dispute is a disagreement over the possession or control of land between two or more political entities. Context and definitions Territorial disputes are often related to the possession of natural resources s ...

, and

discourse analysis Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is an approach to the analysis of written, vocal, or sign language use, or any significant semiotic event. The objects of discourse Analysis (discourse, writing, conversation, communicative event) ...

. He has published on various field research projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina,

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ' ...

Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistr ...

, and

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. In 2005, Toal testified before the United States Congress on political developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Selected books

* G. Toal, ''Near Abroad: Putin, the West, and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus'' Oxford University Press, 2017. * G. Toal, C. Dahlman, ''Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal.'' Oxford University Press, 2011. * G. Ó Tuathail, S. Dalby and P. Routledge, ''The Geopolitics Reader''. Second edition. Routledge, 2006. * J. Agnew, K. Mitchell and G. Toal, eds. ''A Companion to Political Geography''. Blackwell, 2004. * S. Dalby and G. Ó Tuathail, eds., ''Rethinking Geopolitics''. Routledge, 1998. * G. Ó Tuathail, S. Dalby and P. Routledge, ''The Geopolitics Reader''. First edition. Routledge, 1998. * A. Herod, G. Ó Tuathail and S. Roberts, eds. ''An Unruly World? Geography, Globalization and Governance''. Routledge, 1998. * G. Ó Tuathail, ''Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space''. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (Volume 6 in the Borderlines series) and London: Routledge, 1996.

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Gerard Toal's blog
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