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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Mongolia: Between the Hammer and the Anvil
Description: Dr. Undraa Agvaanluvsan recently explained her country’s challenges in coping with a changing global order.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed how global politics works. Instead of peace, prosperity and globalization, the scenario became war, recession and “near shore.” Suddenly, the world was separated into a conflict between the US and Europe on one hand and Russia and China on the other, enforced by sanctions and bullying. Everybody else was supposed to choose one side or the other.
What about Mongolia? It is a democracy in a region where that is unusual, almost unique. But it is geogra...