Mapping Mongolia: Situating Mongolia in the World from Geologic Time to the Present

With its small population and low GDP, Mongolia is frequently deemeduniqueor tacked onto various area studies programs: Inner Asia, Central Asia, Northeast Asia, or Eurasia. This volume is a response to the concern that countries such as Mongolia are marginalized when academia and international diplomacy reconfigure area studies borders in the postsocialist era. Would marginalized countries such as Mongolia benefit from a reconfiguration of area studies programs or even from another way of ...