Gearóid Ó Tuathail (Gerard Toal) is director of the Government and International Affairs program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University’s campus in the Washington metropolitan region. He is the author of Critical Geopolitics (1996) and a coeditor of A Companion to Political Geography (2002) and The Geopolitics Reader (2nd ed., 2006). His latest book project is Re-making Bosnia: Ethnic Cleansing, the International Community, and Populations Returns.