The article deals with the issue of Mongolia's foreign policy during the Cold War. This period is divided into two parts. The first period, 1945-1960s, is a period of conflict between two systems: socialism and capitalism. In this first period of the Cold War Mongolia managed to establish diplomatic relations with socialist countries of Eastern Europe, as the “system allowed”. The second period, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, is the period of the conflict of the socialist system, the period of the Soviet-Chinese confrontation. During this period Mongolia's foreign policy changed dramatically and focused on the Soviet Union. This was due to the Soviet investment «boom» that began in 1960s and the entry of Soviet troops on the territory of Mongolia in 1967. The Soviet military intervention into Mongolia was one of the main reasons for cooling the Soviet-Chinese relations. And military withdrawal contributed to the improvement of Soviet-Chinese relations until the mid-1980s and one of the conditions for improving relations with their neighbors. The internal systemic conflict had a serious impact on Mongolia's foreign policy over those years.

Kolyagiin Demberel, Ph.D, Senior Researcher, Coordinator of the Center for Central Asian Studies at the International Maritime Organization, Institute of International Relations MAS, 15, Baruun Selbe st, Chingeltei district, Ulaanbaatar, 15170, Mongolia, e-mail: kdembee@gmail.com

Demberel K. Manifestation of the Internal Systemic Conflict in Mongolia. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2021, vol. 36, pp. 17-25. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2021.36.17 (in Russian)

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