Regulating Foreign Investment Directly?
One of the questions that is emerging out of the recent announcement of a review of South Gobi’s mining license (transparently in reaction to an announced sale of South Gobi to CHALCO) is whether we...
View ArticleDr. Maria Barrados: Future Opportunities for Canada-Mongolia Relations
Keynote Address 22nd Annual General Meeting North American Mongolia Business Council Ottawa, Apr 18-20, 2012 Dr. Maria Barrados Former President, Public Service Commission of Canada Future...
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Book: Change in Democratic Mongolia – Social Relations, Health, Mobile...
Change in Democratic Mongolia – Social Relations, Health, Mobile Pastoralism, and Mining Edited by Julian Dierkes Some 100 years ago, Mongolia gained independence from Qing China, and more than 20...
View ArticleForeign Investment Considerations in Canada Resemble Mongolian Law
When the Mongolian parliament passed a foreign investment law somewhat hastily in May 2012, partly in response to the proposed purchase of a majority of coal miner South Gobi Resources by CHALCO, this...
View ArticleFDI to Mongolia: Restrictions, China, and Comparisons with Canada
Ever since the Chalco bid for South Gobi Resources prompted the swift passage of a Foreign Investment Law by the Mongolian parliament I’ve been struck by some of the parallels between this law and its...
View ArticleForeign Investment to Mongolia: Restrictions, China, and Comparisons with...
This is an update on an earlier post as well as an extended version of an argument that has now been published in English through East Asia Forum and the UB Post, and in Mongolian in Unuudur:...
View ArticleCommunity of Democracies
This weekend, Mongolia will be hosting the ministerial conference of the Community of Democracies. This will be the highlight of the Mongolian presidency of this body. Numerous delegations are...
View ArticleDeepening Canada-Mongolia Relations
On April 25, just ahead of the ministerial conference of the Community of Democracies that was attended by Canadian Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Minister Deepak Obhrai, I published the...
View ArticleTweet-Up in Ulaanbaatar
I am inviting my Mongolian Twitter followers (and others interested) to meet in person on Friday, June 21st at 16:30h, at the American Center for Mongolian Studies in Ulaanbaatar (Rm 306, Center 34...
View ArticleForeign Policy Roundup: June 9-22, 2013
Below you will find the 3rd posting of our bi-weekly series, entitled “Foreign Policy Roundup”. In each roundup, I provide a 1-2 sentence summary of Mongolian foreign policy news, most of which come...
View ArticleStudy in Canada Education Fair, Oct 27-29, Ulaanbaatar
The Canadian embassy in Ulaanbaatar is hosting its first Canadian Education Fair later this month. Over 20 education institutions from Canada will be represented at the fair, reflecting a commitment to...
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Canadian State Visit
2013 marks the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Canada and Mongolia. Earlier this year, this anniversary was marked by a visit of the chairman of the Ikh Khural, Z Enkhbold, to Canada....
View ArticleResults of Canadian State Visit to Mongolia
Obviously, state visits have symbolic purposes and motivations, but they are also the occasion for announcements in a bilateral relationship. I tried to guess at what the intentions for the state visit...
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Governor General’s Speech to the Mongolian Parliament
Clearly, a parliament, a democratically-elected parliament no less, deserves much respect as an institution and in its proceedings. How appropriate then, that a visiting Governor General would address...
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The Political Theatre of a State Visit to Mongolia
October 25 was the first day of a two-day State Visit by Canadian Governor General David Johnston to Mongolia. Ahead of the visit, I offered some background. For me, this was the first state visit by...
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November 22 Event in Vancouver: Canada-Mongolia Relations
Program on Inner Asia Institute of Asian Research UBC Friday, November 22, 2013 17:30-19h UBC Robson Square, Room C400 On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Canada-Mongolia Diplomatic Relations...
View ArticleExport peacekeeping training to Central and East Asia
This op-ed is first appeared in The Embassy, Canada’s foreign policy newsweekly (12/19/2013) Canada, a co-creator of United Nations peacekeeping, has a substantial comparative advantage in transferring...
View ArticleForeign Policy, Mining & Development
I happened to catch a segment of CBC’s “The 180″ radio show that included an interview with Erin O’Toole, the Canadian Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade. The segment...
View ArticleIn Defence of Twitter Diplomay
On January 6, David Carment (Carleton Univ, @cdnfp) wrote a comment piece for The Embassy (a Canadian weekly and on-line paper focused on Canada’s international relations) that made a case for “Why...
View ArticleCanadian Development Aid
The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development revised its list of priority countries in June 2014 to include Mongolia. Past Bilateral Engagement This is a further step in the...
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