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Comparative Politics of Natural Resource-Dependent Countries: Mongolia in a Comparative Perspective



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Turtogtokh Janar, Myagmarsuren Dashzevge

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DOI:10.17265/2328-2134/2015.12.004

Mongolia has been facing a lot of challenges to build a democratic society and to develop democratic governance, solving political, economic and social problems, and overcoming those obstacles and difficulties, which have derived in our new times. Mongolia is a new democracy, which is implementing political and economic transition reforms simultaneously. Some initiatives on and challenges for development of the country which based on mining of natural resources of Mongolia have appeared in recent years. This paper discusses about the outcomes of natural resources, especially, political and economic impact of resource cure in cases of Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar in a comparative perspective. The research considers the following institutional factors of resource impact which include governance and management systems, corruption level, and geopolitical conditions and resource nationalism. The analysis was conducted based on comparative study of international research institutions such as resource governance index, researches on corruption, and political and geopolitical risks, surveys that estimated political situation and policy consequences relating to natural resources in abovementioned countries and self-collected data and facts.

resource-dependent countries, neopatrimonialism, resource nationalism, resource geostrategic curse

Janar, T., & Dashzevge, M. (2015). Comparative politics of natural resource-dependent countries: Mongolia in a comparative perspective. International Relations and Diplomacy, 3(12), 830-842.