Gerard Toal

• Ph.D., Political Geography, Syracuse University, 1989
• M.A., Geography & History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1984
• B.A., Geography & History (First Class Honors), National University of Ireland, 1982

• Critical Geopolitics. Post-Communist Territorial Conflicts. Geopolitical Orientations in Post-Soviet States. US Foreign Policy. De Facto States. Public Opinion Research. United States, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

• GIA 5254 (PSCI 5254): Global Conflicts
• GIA 5404: Topics in Political Geography
• GIA 5504 (PSCI 5504) (UAP 5504): Discourse Analysis
• GIA 6114: Critical Geopolitics

Books

• Near Abroad: Putin, the US and the Contest for Ukraine and the Caucasus (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
• Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal (with C. Dahlman) (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Articles

• 2019
  • J. O’Loughlin, G. Toal, “Does War Change Geopolitical Attitudes? A Comparative Analysis of 2014 Surveys in Southeast Ukraine.” Problems of Post-Communism. Online, 15 November. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2019.1672565
  • G. Toal, J. O’Loughlin, “The Crimea Conundrum: Legitimacy and Public Opinion After Annexation.” Eurasian Geography and Economics. 60, 1: 6-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2019.1593873
  • G. Toal, G. Merabishvili, “Borderization Theatre: Geopolitical Entrepreneurship on the South Ossetia Boundary Line, 2008–2018,” Caucasus Survey, 7, 2: 110-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/23761199.2019.1565192
• 2018
  • G. Toal, J. O’Loughlin, ““Why Did MH17 Crash?” Blame Attribution, Television News and Public Opinion in Southeastern Ukraine, Crimea, and the De Facto States of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria.” Geopolitics, 23, 4: 882-916. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2017.1364238
  • K. Bakke, A.M. Linke, J. O’Loughlin and G. Toal. “Dynamics of State Building after War: External-Internal Relations in Eurasian De Facto States” Political Geography, 63: 159-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.06.011

Geopolitical Orientation in Russia’s Neighboring States.
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• Critical geopolitics
• Nationalism
• Political geography
• Post-Communism
• Globalization