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O'Loughlin, John Professor

Positions

Professor, Geography
Professor, Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS)

Research Areas

Research

research overview

Dr.O'Loughlin's research interests are in the spatial analysis of conflict including its relationship with climate/environmental change in sub-Saharan Africa. He is also currently conducting research on the political geography of the post-Soviet Union, including Russian and Ukrainian geopolitics, Eurasian 'de facto'-states, and ethno-territorial nationalisms. His work is funded by the National Science Foundation.

keywords

ethnic conflicts, Russia, Caucasus, Central Asia, Ukraine, nationalism, post-conflict beliefs, climate change, sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya, political geography, geopolitics

Publications

selected publications

chapter
journal article
- The consequences of relocating in response to drought: human mobility and conflict in contemporary Kenya. Environmental Research Letters. 2018
- Drought, Local Institutional Contexts, and Support for Violence in Kenya. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 1544-1578. 2018
- More drilling, more transparency and less skipping: A reply to the commentators. Political Geography. 159-160. 2018
- Thirty-five years of political geography and Political Geography: The good, the bad and the ugly. Political Geography. 143-151. 2018
- Dynamics of state-building after war: External-internal relations in Eurasian de facto states. Political Geography. 159-173. 2018
- "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. 882-916. 2018
- Building identities in post-Soviet "de facto states": cultural and political icons in Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Transdniestria, and Abkhazia. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 691-715. 2018
- Editorial: political geographies of the post-Soviet union -a farewell to Eurasian Geography and Economics from the editors. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 587-591. 2018
- The decline and shifting geography of violence in Russia's North Caucasus, 2010-2016. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 613-641. 2018
- Subnational violent conflict forecasts for sub-Saharan Africa, 2015-65, using climate-sensitive models. Journal of Peace Research. 175-192. 2017
- Mountainous Terrain and Civil Wars: Geospatial Analysis of Conflict Dynamics in the Post-Soviet Caucasus. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 520-535. 2017
- The rise and fall of "Novorossiya": examining support for a separatist geopolitical imaginary in southeast Ukraine. Post-Soviet Affairs. 124-144. 2017
- The Perils of Self-Censorship in Academic Research in a WikiLeaks World. Journal of Global Security Studies. 337-345. 2016
- Who identifies with the "Russian World"? Geopolitical attitudes in southeastern Ukraine, Crimea, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 745-778. 2016
- Rainfall variability and violence in rural Kenya: Investigating the effects of drought and the role of local institutions with survey data. Global Environmental Change. 35-47. 2015
- Reconceptualizing, Measuring, and Evaluating Distance and Context in the Study of Conflicts: Using Survey Data from the North Caucasus of Russia. International Studies Review. 107-125. 2015
- Data ethics: Pluralism, replication, conflicts of interest, and standards in Political Geography. Political Geography. A1-A3. 2015
- One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict. Climatic Change. 391-397. 2014
- Effects of temperature and precipitation variability on the risk of violence in sub-Saharan Africa, 1980-2012. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 16712-16717. 2014
- Inside the post-Soviet de facto states: a comparison of attitudes in Abkhazia, Nagorny Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Transnistria. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 423-456. 2014
- Convincing State-Builders? Disaggregating Internal Legitimacy in Abkhazia. International Studies Quarterly. 591-607. 2014
- Modeling and data choices sway conclusions about climate-conflict links. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2054-2055. 2014
- COMMENTARY: Extreme temperatures and violence. Nature Climate Change. 76-77. 2014
- Predators, sanctions and Political Geography. Political Geography. A1-A3. 2014
- Divided space, divided attitudes? Comparing the Republics of Moldova and Pridnestrovie (Transnistria) using simultaneous surveys. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 227-258. 2013
- Inside South Ossetia: a survey of attitudes in a de facto state. Post-Soviet Affairs. 136-172. 2013
- Introducing the new era of Eurasian Geography and Economics. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 1-4. 2013
- Land for Peace in Nagorny Karabakh? Political Geographies and Public Attitudes Inside a Contested De Facto State. Territory, Politics, Governance. 158-182. 2013
- Political Geography in the age of electronic information. Political Geography. 1-2. 2013
- Climate variability and conflict risk in East Africa, 1990-2009. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 18344-18349. 2012
- The diffusion of violence in the North Caucasus of Russia, 1999-2010. Environment and Planning A. 2379-2396. 2012
- Celebrating thirty years of Political Geography. Political Geography. 1-2. 2012
- Space-Time Granger Analysis of the War in Iraq: A Study of Coalition and Insurgent Action-Reaction. International Interactions. 402-425. 2012
- Detecting the Effects of Wars in the Caucasus Regions of Russia and Georgia Using Radiometrically Normalized DMSP-OLS Nighttime Lights Imagery. GIScience and Remote Sensing. 478-500. 2011
- After the Wars in the South Caucasus State of Georgia: Economic Insecurities and Migration in the "De Facto" States of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 631-654. 2011
- The Changing Geography of Violence in Russia's North Caucasus, 1999-2011: Regional Trends and Local Dynamics in Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Kabardino-Balkaria. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 596-630. 2011
- Academic re-territorializations: Gate-keeping, power and responsibility. Political Geography. 1-2. 2011
- Inside Abkhazia: Survey of Attitudes in a De Facto State. Post-Soviet Affairs. 1-36. 2011
- The Localized Geographies of Violence in the North Caucasus of Russia, 1999-2007. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 178-201. 2011
- Ethnic competition, radical Islam, and challenges to stability in the Republic of Dagestan. Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 297-308. 2010
- Peering into the Fog of War: The Geography of the WikiLeaks Afghanistan War Logs, 2004-2009. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 472-495. 2010
- The Afghanistan-Pakistan Wars, 2008-2009: Micro-geographies, Conflict Diffusion, and Clusters of Violence. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 437-471. 2010
- Inter-ethnic friendships in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina Sociodemographic and place influences. Ethnicities. 26-54. 2010
- Re-presenting information: Reviews, interventions, and guest editorials. Political Geography. 1-2. 2010
- New Horizons for Regional Geography. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 241-251. 2009
- Social distance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the North Caucasus region of Russia: Inter and intra-ethnic attitudes and identities. Nations and Nationalism. 227-253. 2009
- The structure of political geography. Progress in Human Geography. 275-279. 2009
- Accounting for separatist sentiment in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the North Caucasus of Russia: a comparative analysis of survey responses. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 591-615. 2009
- After Ethnic Cleansing: Return Outcomes in Bosnia-Herzegovina a Decade Beyond War. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 1045-1053. 2009
- Political Geography expands: Both the medium and the message. Political Geography. 1-3. 2009
- Reconciliation in Conflict-Affected Societies: Multilevel Modeling of Individual and Contextual Factors in the North Caucasus of Russia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 1012-1021. 2009
- Satellite Data Methods and Application in the Evaluation of War Outcomes: Abandoned Agricultural Land in Bosnia-Herzegovina After the 1992-1995 Conflict. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 1033-1044. 2009
- The Localized Geopolitics of Displacement and Return in Eastern Prigorodnyy Rayon, North Ossetia. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 635-669. 2008
- Belonging to the world: Cosmopolitanism in geographic contexts. Geoforum. 926-941. 2008
- Where the tradition meets its challengers. Political Geography. 1-4. 2008
- Population change and migration in Stavropol' Kray: The effects of regional conflicts and economic restructuring. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 249-267. 2007
- Special issue on the caucasus: Political, Population, and Economic Geographies. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 127-134. 2007
- The Caucasus in a time of conflict, demographic transition, and economic change. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 135-156. 2007
- The geopolitical orientations of ordinary Russians: A public opinion analysis. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 129-152. 2006
- Bosnia-Herzegovina ten years after Dayton: Constitutional change and public opinion. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 61-75. 2006
- The war on terrorism, academic publication norms, and replication. Professional Geographer. 588-591. 2005
- Russian geopolitical culture and public opinion: the masks of Proteus revisited. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 322-335. 2005
- Social and political trust in Istanbul and Moscow: a comparative analysis of individual and neighbourhood effects. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 66-82. 2005
- Where in the world is Russia? Geopolitical perceptions and preferences of ordinary Russians. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 23-50. 2005
- How Moscow is becoming a capitalist mega-city. International Social Science Journal. 413-+. 2004
- Russian geopolitical storylines and public opinion in the wake of 9-11: a critical geopolitical analysis and national survey. Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 281-318. 2004
- Academic openness, boycotts and journal policy. Political Geography. 641-643. 2004
- A 'risky westward turn'? Putin's 9-11 script and ordinary Russians. Europe-Asia Studies. 3-34. 2004
- Democratic Values in a Globalizing World: A Multilevel Analysis of Geographic Contexts. GeoJournal. 3-17. 2004
- Civic engagement and democratic consolidation in Kyrgyzstan. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 557-587. 2003
- Location and political choice in post-unification Berlin: Explaining the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism) vote, 1999 and 2001. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 349-382. 2002
- Still not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier: the geopolitics of the Kosovo war 1999. Political Geography. 573-599. 2002
- Moscow as an emergent world city: International links, business developments, and the entrepreneurial city. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 170-196. 2002
- Moscow: Post-Soviet Developments and Challenges. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 161-169. 2002
- Spatial Processes and Political Methodology: Introduction to the Special Issue. Political Analysis. 211-216. 2002
- The Electoral Geography of Weimar Germany: Exploratory Spatial Data Analyses (ESDA) of Protestant Support for the Nazi Party. Political Analysis. 217-243. 2002
- The regional factor in contemporary Ukrainian politics: Scale, place, space, or bogus effect?. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 1-33. 2001
- Responses: Geography as space and geography as place: The divide between political science and political geography continues. Geopolitics. 126-137. 2000
- Can King's ecological inference method answer a social scientific puzzle: Who voted for the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany?. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 592-601. 2000
- The political geography of civic engagement in Ukraine. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 233-266. 1999
- The diffusion of democracy, 1946-1994. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 545-574. 1998
- National construction, territorial separatism, and post-Soviet geopolitics in the Transdniester Moldovan Republic. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 332-358. 1998
- The electoral geographies of a polarizing city: Moscow, 1993-1996. Post Soviet Geography and Economics. 567-600. 1997
- Regions and milieux in Weimar Germany: The Nazi party vote of 1930 in geographic perspective. Erdkunde. 1995
- The Geography of the Nazi Vote: Context, Confession, and Class in the Reichstag Election of 1930. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 351-380. 1994
- Ten Scenarios for a “New World Order”. Professional Geographer. 22-28. 1992
- Bringing geography back to the study of international relations: Spatial dependence and regional context in Africa, 1966–1978. International Interactions. 29-61. 1991
- The Political Geography of Presidential Speeches, 1946–87. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 504-530. 1990
- Political geography: attempting to understand a changing world order. Progress in Human Geography. 420-437. 1990
- Political geography: coping with global restructuring. Progress in Human Geography. 412-426. 1989
- Superpower Competition and the Militarization of the Third World. Journal of Geography. 269-275. 1987
- In a Spirit of Cooperation, Not Conflict: A Reply to Ward and Kirby. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 284-288. 1987
- Back To The Future Of Political Geography: A Rejoinder To O'Tuathail. Professional Geographer. 198-199. 1987
- Immigration to Western Europe, 1952–1982: A Time-Series Analysis of Movement to Sweden, France, and Essen. Environment and Planning A. 375-399. 1986
- Spatial Models of International Conflicts: Extending Current Theories of War Behavior. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 63-80. 1986
- CLAIMING NEW TERRITORY FOR A STABLE PEACE: HOW GEOGRAPHY CAN CONTRIBUTE∗. Professional Geographer. 18-28. 1986
- RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION OF FOREIGNERS IN GERMAN CITIES. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. 273-284. 1984
- Spatial inequalities in Western cities: A comparison of North American and German urban areas. Social Indicators Research. 185-212. 1983
- The Identification and Evaluation of Racial Gerrymandering. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 165-184. 1982
- THE ELECTION OF BLACK MAYORS, 1977∗. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 353-370. 1980
- THE ELECTION OF BLACK MAYORS, 1969 AND 1973∗. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 223-238. 1977

Teaching

courses taught

GEOG 1962 Geographies of Global Change (Spring 2019)
GEOG 3840 Undergraduate Independent Study (Spring 2019)
GEOG 5840 Graduate Independent Study (Spring 2019)
GEOG 6940 Master's Degree Candidate (Spring 2019)
GEOG 6950 Master's Thesis (Spring 2019)
GEOG 7840 Graduate Independent Study (Spring 2019)
GEOG 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Spring 2019)
GEOG 3840 Undergraduate Independent Study (Fall 2018)
GEOG 4712 Political Geography (Fall 2018)
GEOG 5712 Political Geography (Fall 2018)
GEOG 5840 Graduate Independent Study (Fall 2018)
GEOG 6940 Master's Degree Candidate (Fall 2018)
GEOG 6950 Master's Thesis (Fall 2018)
GEOG 7840 Graduate Independent Study (Fall 2018)
GEOG 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Fall 2018)
GEOG 3840 Undergraduate Independent Study (Summer 2018)
GEOG 5840 Graduate Independent Study (Summer 2018)
GEOG 6940 Master's Degree Candidate (Summer 2018)
GEOG 6950 Master's Thesis (Summer 2018)
GEOG 7840 Graduate Independent Study (Summer 2018)
GEOG 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Summer 2018)
GEOG 1962 Geographies of Global Change (Spring 2018)
GEOG 3840 Undergraduate Independent Study (Spring 2018)
GEOG 3882 Geography of the Former Soviet Union (Spring 2018)
GEOG 5840 Graduate Independent Study (Spring 2018)
GEOG 6940 Master's Degree Candidate (Spring 2018)
GEOG 6950 Master's Thesis (Spring 2018)
GEOG 7840 Graduate Independent Study (Spring 2018)
GEOG 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Spring 2018)

Background

education and training

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University 1973
M.S., Pennsylvania State University 1971
B.A., University College Dublin (Ireland) 1969

awards and honors

Semenov-Tyan-Shansky Gold Medal (Russian Geographical Society), conferred by Russian Geographical Society, 2015
Myron Weiner Award (International Studies Association), conferred by International Studies Association, 2015
AAG Honors (Association of American Geographers), conferred by Association of American Geographers, 2013
Professor of Distinction (College of Arts and Sciences), conferred by College of Arts and Sciences, 2008
Fellowship (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation), conferred by John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2004
BFA Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work (Boulder Faculty Assembly), conferred by Boulder Faculty Assembly, 2001

International Activities

global connections related to teaching and scholarly work (in recent years)

Azerbaijan Country
Georgia Country
Kenya Country
Republic of Moldova Country
Russian Federation Country
United Kingdom Country
eastern Africa Transnational Region
eastern Europe Transnational Region

Other Profiles

ORCID iD

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9053-7885

ResearchGate

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Oloughlin2