Gerard Toal (Irish: Gearóid Ó Tuathail; born 1962 in the Republic of Ireland[1]) is Professor of Government and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
He has held fellowships at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, and the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California.
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 the ENMISA Distinguished Book Award from the International Studies Association in 2019.
His research specializations include critical geopolitics, nationalism, political geography, post-Communism, globalization, territorial disputes, and discourse analysis.