David Sneath News Today

The University will collaborate with the Mongolian government to investigate the legacy of the notorious warlord

How the former president outrages the media and wins over the anti-anti-Trumpers.

Partnership between Cambridge University and the Mongolian government will foster "deeper study".

News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

In December 2022, corruption revelations involving the state-owned Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi (ETT) mining company sparked enormous protests in Ulaanbaatar. What initially began as a backlash against an entrenched “coal mafia” snowballed into a trenchant critique of the government’s inability (and unwillingness) to provide a better future for Mongolia’s youth. Protestors told The Diplomat that suffocating

The fifth generation of Land Rover’s top model is a technological tour de force but has it lost some of the rugged appeal of earlier models?

summary This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today: the construction of ethnic and national cultures, the transformations of political economy and a ‘nomadic’ pastoralism, and the revitalization of a religious and cosmological heritage that has led to new forms of post-socialist politics. Widely published as an expert in the field, David Sneath offers a fresh perspective into a region often seen as mysterious to the...