Jargalsaikhan Mendee is a Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies of Mongolia. His research interests are Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), international security (geopolitics, peacekeeping), impacts of extractive industry on security, politics, and economy of Central and Inner Asia.<\/p>\n
He has defended his PhD in political science at the University of British Columbia. His dissertation<\/a> examines the political development of Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan in 1985-2010.<\/p>\n He\u00a0has written MA theses\u00a0on anti-Chinese sentiments in Mongolia and Mongolian civil-society. The first thesis <\/a>(Anti-Chinese attitudes in post-communist Mongolia: the lingering negative schemas of the past<\/em>) argues that anti-Chinese sentiment in post-communist Mongolia as consequence of the state institutionalization of the anti-Chinese attitudes during the Sino-Soviet tension.\u00a0 The latter<\/a> (Civil society in a non-Western setting: Mongolian civil society<\/em>) contends the Mongolian civil society remains vulnerable to the exploitation of political and business interest groups.<\/p>\n He used to write occassional op-eds to the Eurasian Daily Monitoring of the Jamestown Foundation, Asia Pacific Memo, and is Associate Member of the Central Asian Program of the Elliott School of International Affairs.<\/p>\n Publications:<\/p>\n “Mongolia in the 2016-2017 Electoral Cycle: Blessings of Patronage,” co-author with Sergey Radchenko,\u00a0Asian Survey,\u00a0<\/em>57:6, November\/December 2017.<\/p>\n “Mongolia’s Dilemma: A Politically Linked, Economically Isolated Small Power,” in\u00a0Rozman G., Radchenko S. (eds) International Relations and Asia\u2019s Northern Tier <\/em>(Singapore:\u00a0Asan-Palgrave Macmillan Series, 2018).<\/p>\n \u201cCivil-Military Relations in a Dictatorship,\u201d in Thomas C. Bruneau and Florina Cristiana Matei eds., The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations <\/em>(London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 79-92.<\/p>\n \u201cDiscovering Peacekeeping as a New Mission: Mongolia,\u201d co-author with Thomas Bruneau in Thomas C. Bruneau and Florina Cristiana Matei eds., The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations <\/em>(London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 204-218.<\/p>\n “Asymmetrical Military Socialization – Mongolia as a Case Study” the Armed Force & Society Journal<\/em> (online in 2012)<\/p>\n \u201cWhole of Government Responses in Mongolia: From Domestic Response to International Implication,\u201d co-author with Mr. David Last, Royal Military College, The Pearson Papers, <\/em>Vol.11, No. 2, 2008, pp. 1-22, Available Online: http:\/\/www.peaceoperations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/PearsonPapersVol11-Issue2_WEB.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n Mongolia\u2019s Peacekeeping Commitment, Discussion Paper, <\/em>National Defense Intelligence College, May 2007, available at http:\/\/www.ndic.edu\/press\/6156.htm<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cMongolia-Australia Relations: A Mongolian Perspective,\u201d Policy Analysis <\/em>of Australian Strategic Policy Institute, September 14, 2012, available at http:\/\/apo.org.au\/research\/mongolia-australia-relations-mongolian-perspective<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cFactoring Mongolia\u2019s Non-Membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization,\u201d Voices From Central Asia, <\/em>No. 4, July 2012, available at http:\/\/www.centralasiaprogram.org\/images\/Voices_from_CA_4,_July_2012.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cFinally a New Era in NATO-Mongolia Relations,\u201d Voices From Central Asia, <\/em>No. 1, June 2012, http:\/\/www.centralasiaprogram.org\/images\/Voices_from_CA_1,_June_2012.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cMongolia\u2019s Quest for Third Neighbors: Why the European Union?\u201d EUCAM Policy Brief, <\/em>No. 25, 2012, http:\/\/www.eucentralasia.eu\/fileadmin\/PDF\/PolicyBriefs\/MONGOLIA_QUEST_FOR_THIRD_NEIGHBOURS_WHY_THE_EU.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jargalsaikhan Mendee is a Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies of Mongolia. His research interests are Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), international security (geopolitics, peacekeeping), impacts of extractive industry on security, politics, and economy of Central and Inner Asia. … Continue reading