Gerard Toal

2025-10-21 10:05:42

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

Professor of Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech

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I am Political Geographer, the author of three books -- Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest for Ukraine and the Caucasus (Oxford 2017), Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal (co-authored with Carl T. Dahlman) (Oxford, 2011) and Critical Geopolitics (Univ of Minnesota Press, 1996) -- and a hundred plus peer-reviewed articles and other works on global political geography, de facto states, secessionism, US foreign policy, and geopolitics. My new book is Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Experience

–present Professor of Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech

Education

1989 Syracuse University, Geography

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