A NEW PARADIGM IN MONGOLIA’S «THIRD NEIGHBOR» DIPLOMACY AND SOFT BALANCING

Abstract

Mongolia is the only one state in the Northeast Asian region, which has established with all states legal basis of strategic and comprehensive partnership, and friendly relationship and cooperation framework in bilateral level. In other words, Mongolia has any serious conflicts with countries of the region, and especially no political controversies became an important achievement in Mongolia’s national security. Mongolia’s “third neighbor” diplomacy is, besides of geographical policy and understanding, not only related to certain country, it is more concept of theory of international relations emerged on geographical and space specifics and covering areas of politics, economics, geopolitics and security. Mongolia’s “third neighbor” diplomacy is geopolitics originated directly from Mongolia’s national interests, connected with geographical specific location and in longterm in order to secure and maintain appropriate balance of power in the middle of policies and measures conducting by two neighbors and to ensure national security comprehensively by political-diplomatic and economic means, and in wider context a definition comprising subjects such as western and eastern democratic, developed countries and UN, influencial to world politics, and unbending supporter of Mongolia’s democracy and policy of market economy. Theoretical base of “third neighbor” diplomacy is balance of power or soft balancing and balance of interests. At the present, Mongolia has became a “third neighbor” her global geopolitical environment and formed that is legal framework, etc.,