title: Swimming with the Whales: Inflection Points in Mongolia’s ‘Third Neighbour’ Foreign Policy
abstract: When it became a democracy in the early 1990s, Mongolia began to embrace a multi-pillared foreign policy known as the 'third neighbour' policy, whereby it regarded the United States and other democracies as its 'third neighbour' that balances the influence of its powerful immediate neighbours, Russia and China. Thereafter, four major inflection points have emerged in the development process of the 'third neighbour' policy, all in response to changes in Mongolia's external environment, particular
journal: Asian Studies Review