Mongolia and the Geopolitics of Dependence

For Ulaanbaatar, sovereignty means finding room to maneuver between Russia and China.

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August was a busy month for work travel at GPF. While Antonia was exploring the origins of geopolitics in Sweden, my journey took me to Mongolia, the birthplace of Genghis Khan, who created one of the first unified geopolitical entities on the Eurasian steppe and laid the foundations for Eurasian transcontinental integration. Mongolia’s desire for […]

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Ekaterina Zolotova
Ekaterina Zolotova is an analyst for Geopolitical Futures. Prior to Geopolitical Futures, Ms. Zolotova participated in several research projects devoted to problems and prospects of Russia’s integration into the world economy. Ms. Zolotova has a specialist degree in international economic relations from Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. In addition, Ms. Zolotova studied international trade and international integration processes. Her thesis was on features of economic development of Venezuela. She speaks native Russian and is fluent in English.