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Vol. 53 No. 4 (2025)

Research Articles

Between Giants. Doctrinal and Normative Founding of Contemporary Mongolia’s Foreign Policy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35757/STP.2025.53.4.10
Submitted: January 23, 2024
Published: December 22, 2025

Abstract

The following paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the normative basis of Mongolia’s foreign policy, a landlocked country in Northeast Asia. The paper examines Mongolian foreign relations from a legal perspective, focusing on the Concept of foreign policy, the National Security Concept, and bilateral treaties concluded by Mongolia with its major external partners – Russia and China. It argues that Mongolia, a relatively small—in terms of political power—the nation has developed a successful strategy of balancing between neighbouring powers and takes advantage of deepening relations with countries like the US and Japan, called “a third neighbour”, and strengthens its international position, fostering North East Asian peace-building processes.

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