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Today energy is one of the key themes discussed in the context of the future world development. Contemporary global challenges demand the solution for the complex problem of the development and support of the stable schemes in satisfying the demand for energy resources and providing for continuous and efficient energy supply. The solution of the foregoing problem, in a point of fact, will become a serious contribution to the energy safety of the countries, to the decrease of the risk of price rise and price stagger on fuel resources, to the decrease of the risk of climate changes and to the ensuring of economic development, job creation and environment protection.

Energy industry of Armenia has become one of those spheres of economy where the reforms were carried out rather bravely. Today according to the estimate of the established international organizations’ (International Monetary Fund, World Bank and etc) Armenia takes a leading position among the countries of South Caucasus region on the level and profundity of the reforms in energy directed to the creation of the liberal energy market which at current moment effectively provides protection of interests of the final consumers, equal status for implementation of economic activity and the protection of foreign investors.

The strategy of economic development of Armenia rests on the principals of diversification of business and production, investments in human capital and innovations. But it would be very difficult to implement the above-mentioned policy of the government of the RA, which have proclaimed that they are proceeding to the second crucial phase of the reforms in the country, without efficient work of energetic sphere of the republic, which is in fact a strategic branch of economy.

The demand in energy resources is growing swiftly and Armenia, which is situated in one of the most difficult and, at the same time, one of the most interesting regions of the world, have not avoided those global tendencies either. The region of South Caucuses and its neighbouring countries (Turkey and Iran) are on the crossing of oil and gas energetic projects. The existence of hydrocarbon resources in a number of the countries of the region and its proximity to the biggest energy resources markets and economic centres, which demonstrate high rates of industrial growth and increase in demand for oil and gas, makes that region very attractive for international capital.

What is the place of Armenia on the energy map of the region? What should be a guiding line for Armenia amid global resource competition, including companies from the countries, which do not have enough hydrocarbon resources to provide their economic development? What should be at the heart of regional energetic security? The answers on those questions play a key role for elaboration of the efficient policy of Armenia oriented on the consumption of new in qualitative sense export policy in the sphere of energetic.

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The article touches upon a number of aspects of the notions of judicial and political sovereignties, distinguishing in the last one the “sovereignty of recognition” and the “sovereignty of fact”, which form a real sovereignty in the political space. It is shown how the deviation from the paradigm of absolute monarchy, which happens within the framework of two doctrines (Kelsen and Krabbe), and the ignoring of the regularities of political space brings to absurd and nonviable conclusions, which are criticized, particularly, by Carl Schmitt.

The conclusion is made that while considering political sovereignty it is very important to differentiate the true carrier of the sovereignty, i.e. the sovereign, and the users of the sovereignty. The analysis of the relations between them allows distinguishing three states of the sovereign, i.e. sleeping, dozy, with periodic awakening, and awake. The relations between the sovereigns and the users of the sovereignty create a space, where the “games of sovereignty”, which go on within the different scenarios of confrontation, take place. The fall of the USSR and the beginning of the post-Soviet period caused new handlings and interpretations of the sovereignty, which are connected with the necessity of the reconsideration of totalitarian modus of sovereignty.

The article touches upon the predominance in the current period of the sovereignty of recognition over the sovereignty of fact. The difference between the sovereigns and the users of the sovereignty allows the West elaborating technologies, which “take the sovereignty away” from the sovereign. Particularly, the technologies of colour revolutions as a new type of international legitimization are examined.

It is shown that the latest discussions on a legality of the status of the NKR as a sovereign fit in a logic of the appropriate technologies and the games of sovereignty. The conclusion is made that the analysis of Armenian statehood in the light of the problems of sovereignty is an actual and difficult problem, which needs organization and interdisciplinary researches.

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In spite of the relatively late hard-won statehood both by the Jews and the Armenians, moreover, the murderous wars, which accompanied the formation of independent Israel, as well as of the Republic of Armenia, the majority of those who belong to the title ethnic group of those states live abroad. Though nobody has ever taken the census of Armenian and Jewish population all over the world, it is obvious that less than a half of the appropriate national groups live in Armenia and Israel, while the majority is spread over the Diasporas in different countries. Thus, both for the Armenians and for the Jews the Diasporas remain the important factor to preserve national unity under the formed statehood. Furthermore, the geographic spread of the Diasporas all over the countries and the continents makes them an important factor in the system of international relations both for the Republic of Armenia and the State of Israel. The inability to base upon the “national centre” makes them to look for such a base in themselves, in their community or the ensemble of the communities. The preserving of their identity becomes under such conditions a pressing, everyday task and work, the constant factor for the reflections and hard intracommunity regulations”.

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The Armenian Genocide, which reached its catastrophic culmination in 1915, troubled the natural course of an overall historical process of the life of the Armenian people. The article touches upon some aspects of the history of the Armenian community of Jerusalem and Palestine in the period of World War I and of the Genocide, and also upon the role of Armenian Legion in the liberation of all-Christian shrines.

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The crisis phenomena, which happen in world financial system, constitute a real threat to a national security of many countries. In order to define the true reasons, to post reliable predictions on a probable developments, to elaborate appropriate measures of reaction their analysis is needed.

Economic crises are unpleasant, lingering, but they can be overcome if the social and political system, state system are stable and the external environment is amicable, particularly, when there is no serious threat to the national security of a state, e.g. military threat. If any of the stability factors on the high levels becomes inadmissibly low, then the system crisis, which encompasses all the spheres of social life, develops. At last, when there is an essential imbalance of world financial and economic systems the tendencies of the development of world system crises appear. Sometimes such crises turn into world wars. On the assumption of the aforementioned in this article the hierarchy of crises is considered and the reasons of their origin are analyzed.

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The article touches upon the concealed mechanisms, which have activated world crisis. In the opinion of the author, today the usage of financial and administrative and diplomatic resources, organizational and conceptual and informational and virtual weapons become the most efficient means to that geopolitical end. At present moment incomparably bigger success is achieved in the line of social pressure on undesirable governments through the provoking of various “orange revolutions”, through coordination according to the aims and purposes, place and time, content, forms and methods of special informational operations, through the activity of international non-governmental structures and a network of agency of influence, through the imposing of political and economic models of development to the national elites, encouragement of corruption, usage of the controlled capabilities of international terrorism and etc.