Publications
A. Articles in peer-reviewed journals
2011
“Where did the Mongol Empire come from? Medieval Mongol Ideas of People, State and Empire”, Inner Asia, Vol. 13, Number 2, pp. 211-237
2010
“The 1640 Great Code: an Inner Asian Parallel to the Treaty of Westphalia”, Central Asian Survey, Vol. 29. Number 3, pp. 269-288
“The Transformation of Mongolia’s Political System: From Semi-parliamentary to Parliamentary?”, Asian Survey, Vol. 50. Number 2, pp. 311-334
2009
“Beneath the Headless State and Beyond the Aristocratic Orders”, Ab Imperio, Vol. 4: pp. 135-143
2008
“Selling of Good Father’s Name: Legitimacy, Pride and Commodity (Commemoration of Chinggis Khan in Modern Mongolia)”, Bulletin, Vol. 24: pp. 35-46
2007
“Mongolia’s Political System in Transformation: From Semi-Presidentialism to Parliamentarism?”, Asia Japan Journal, Vol. 3. pp. 119-121 (in Japanese)
2006
“The Mongolian Nationality Lexicon: From the Chinggisid Lineage to Mongolian Nationality (From the seventeenth to early twentieth century)”, Inner Asia, Vol. 8, Number 1, pp. 51-98
B. International conference papers, and talks (major)
2013
“Writing Mongolia Ethnologically: From Ethnological to Ethnic”, A paper presented at the Conference entitled “The Visible and the Invisible: Institutions and Identities in Contemporary Central Asia”, CASCA Halle-Zurich Centre for the Anthropological Study of Central Asia, University of Zurich and Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Zurich, Switzerland, December 20-22, 2013
“Making Mongolia Tribal: The Qing Transformation and the Rise of European Ethnological Paradigm” A paper given at the Advanced Seminar on East Asian Studies, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA, March 4, 2013
“Mongolia’s Nationality Policy: Making Mongolia Multi-Ethnic”, An Inner Asian and Altaic Studies lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, February 6, 2013
2012
“Imperial Incorporation and the Political Order in Pre-Modern Eurasia: The Chinggisid and the Qing incorporations in Comparison”, A paper given at the roundtable on “The Nature of the Manchu Qing Empire and of its Relations with other polities in Asia”, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, December 5-8, 2012
2011
“The Irony of Mongolia’s Independence: Making the Mongols Mongolic and Mongolia Multi-Ethnic”, A paper presented at the Conference on “Mongolian Sovereignty and the Mongols”, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, December 9-12, 2011
“Mongolia’s Post-Socialist Transition: A Great Neoliberal Transformation”, A paper presented at the Conference on “Mongolians After Socialism: Economic Aspiration, Political Development, and Cultural & Spiritual Identity”, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, June 27-29, 2011
“The Qing Transformation of Mongolia: Structural Ethnicization and Tribalization of Mongolia ”, A paper presented at the international workshop entitled “Administrative and Colonial Practices in Qing Ruled China: Lifanyuan and Libu Revisited”, Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, April 7-8, 2011
2010
“Mongolia’s Nationality Policy: The Construction of Multi-Ethnic Mongolia”, A paper presented at Ethnologisches Seminar, University of Zurich, Switzerland, November 22, 2010
“Where did the Mongol Empire come from: A Tribal World or an Aristocratic Order Or? Medieval Mongol Ideas of People, State and Empire”, A paper presented at the international roundtable entitled “The Nature of the Mongol Empire and its Legacy”, Centre for Studies in Asian Cultures and Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, November 4-6, 2010
2009
“Mongols’ Origin Myth during the Qing Dynasty: Statehood and the Chinggisid Lineage,” A paper presented at the panel entitled “Mongolia: On the Eve of Modernity”, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, April 29, 2009
“Ethnic Identities in Mongolia: A Culture of Division”, A paper presented at the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, March 12, 2009
“The Enmity of Independency: Ethnic and National Identities in Mongolia”, A paper presented at the Eurasian Studies Working Group, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, October 21, 2008
2006
“Mongolian Identity and Imperial Order”, A paper presented at The Second International Conference of Asian Philosophical Association, Busan National University, Busan, South Korea. October 26-29, 2006
“Ulus and Irgen: Statehood and Mongolian Identity (from the thirteenth to the fourteenth century)”, A paper presented at the Ninth International Congress of the Mongolists, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, August 8-12, 2006
“Who Governs Mongolia: Semi-Presidentialism or Parliamentarism plus Cartel?”, A paper presented at the Thirteenth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University at Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, April 8, 2006
2003
“Inquiry into Mongolian Nationalism through terms and concepts (from the late nineteenth century to the mid-1920s)”, A paper presented at the annual meeting of The Mongolia Society held in conjunction with The Association for Asian Studies, New York, USA, March 26-30, 2003
C. Publications in Mongolian (major)
Books
2000
Attila and European Huns. Ulaanbaatar: Soyombo Printing
Lectures on the Philosophy of History. Ulaanbaatar: Admon Press
1999
Theoretical and Methodological Problems of Historical Research. Edited together with Boldbaatar, J. and Sodnom, Sh. Ulaanbaatar: Admon Press.
Peer-reviewed Articles (major)
1999
“Notes on the Modernist theory of Nationhood”, Studia Historica Instituti Historiae Academiae Scientiarum Mongoli, Vol. 31 pp. 101-8
“Red Revolution in Mongolia: The Proclamation of the People’s Republic and the Adoption of the First Constitution of Mongolia and its Social and Political Ramifications”, in Tsanjid (ed.) Mонголын шинэ түүхийн зарим асуудлууд. Ulaanbaatar: Admon Press. pp. 59-75
1990
“The Form and the Nature of the People’s Government, 1921-1924”, Studia Historica Instituti Historiae Academiae Scientiarum Mongoli, Vol. 25, pp. 47-55.
Translated books
2007
Ардчилалуудыг харьцуулахуй: Сонгууль ба санал өгөлт глобаль төвшинд
(Comparing Democracies: Elections and Voting in Global Perspective, ed. by Lawrence LeDuc, Richard G. Niemi, and Pippa Norris, SAGE, 1996), Ulaanbaatar: NUM Press.
2006
Чингис хаан: Түүний амьдрал ба өв (Paul Rachnevsky Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy), Ulaanbaatar: Soyombo Printing.
Higher Education Policy Reports and Publications
English
2014
Strengthening Higher Education Governance and Autonomy in Mongolia, Draft Report
2008
Reforming State University Governance: Public Status and Shared Governance, Open Society Forum, Ulaanbaatar 2008, 49 pages
2009
With Nataliya Dromina-Voloc and Riedwaan Kimmie, Financing Higher Educaiton: Myriad of Problems, Myriad of Solutions, Institute for Higher Education Policy, Washington, D.C., 24 pages
Mongolian
2013
“Их сургуулийг улс төрөөс ангижруулах жор: Корпорэт болон меритийн засаглал” Өдрийн сонин (August 10, 2013)
“Их сургуулийн засаглалын хямрал” (July, 2013), Available at http://www.news.mn/content/151092.shtml
“Их сургуулийн засаглалын шилдэг загвар: Корпорэт болон меритийн засаглал” (June, 2013), Available at
http://www.tsahimurtuu.mn/index.php/component/k2/item/2103-article_130609_001 or at http://www.meds.gov.mn/post1307166