10.12.2009
"21st CENTURY", # 2, 2009
The second issue of “Noravank” Foundation’s “21st Century” journal for 2009 was published. Its articles touch upon the issues of ideology and information security (G. Harutyunyan), analysis of global crisis (I.Bagiryan) and its impact on the countries of the region (S.Grinyaev), as well as a number of issues concerning the Armenian Genocide, particularly the attitudes of Israel to the Genocide (Y.Auron), problems of the third generation of the Armenian Diaspora (G.Poghosyan), legal issues of state responsibility for genocide (V.Vardanyan) and history of the Armenian society self-organization in the light of Armenian Question.
Below you can find the annotations of the articles in English.
Gagik Harutyunyan
IDEOLOGY AND INFORMATION SECURITY
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| The article shows that because of the current system crisis the liberal concepts lose their monopolistic positions. In turn, competitive abilities of societies and their levels of national security are stipulated by their capacity to create a polyideological system with proportionally represented universal and nationally conservative ideologies. According to the our approach, a national-conservative ideology can be identified with the concept of information security for a given society. In this context a special significance will belong to establishing and preserving the critical infrastructures having ideological character. |
Sergey Grinyaev
TRANSCAUCASIA AMID THE GLOBAL CRISIS: MAIN TENDENCIES OF THE GEOPOLITICAL AND GEO-ECONOMIC SITUATION CHANGE
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| The article is devoted to the analysis of the situation caused by the global financial and economic crisis. It is shown that as most of the countries of the world the countries of Transcaucasia were in the whirlwind of crisis, their economies suffered substantial losses. It is especially mentioned that crisis influenced not only social and economic situation but in some cases it has also affected foreign political positions of the states of Transcaucasia: under new difficult circumstances they have to look for new solutions of the old problems. The special attention in the article is paid to the Russian interests in Transcaucasia. It is mentioned that today Russia have to struggle for the preservation of its influence in the region. The role and the influence of a number of international projects realized in the region (particularly such projects as Nabucco) are examined. |
Igor Bagiryan
CRISIS: STRICT LIMITS OF THE GLOBAL AND NATIONAL LEVELS OF DEVELOPMENT
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| The current crisis is an integral phenomenon – a fundamental cause being manifested in a complex of negative processes. The crisis is generated by the economy as a subsystem removing itself from the total system of public development and its natural limitations and the economy being transformed into a self-contained force. This article considers the ways to overcome the crisis. |
Yair Auron
ISRAELI ATTITUDES TOWARD THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: DENIAL AND RECOGNITION
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| The attitude of Israel toward the Armenian Genocide is significant. Israel regards itself as the state of the Jewish people who were victims of the Holocaust. It is difficult to overestimate how important the position of the Jews, and especially the attitude of the state of Israel to the Armenian Genocide, are for the Armenians (as well as to the Turks and the rest of the world), because the Israeli state was established by a nation victimized by the Holocaust. |
Gevorg Poghosyan
PROBLEMS OF THE THIRD GENERATION OF ARMENIAN DIASPORA
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| During almost 100 years following the Armenian Genocide Armenian Diaspora underwent several stages of development. Different fragments of the Diaspora history are studied rather thoroughly. Nevertheless, we think that it needs generalization and complete re-interpretation. |
Vladimir Vardanyan
CURRENT TENDENCIES AND DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF STATE RESPONSIBILITY FOR GENOCIDE
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| The last decade of the XX century was crucial from the point of view of comprehension and new perception of the issues related to the Genocide committed against Armenians (hereafter “the Genocide”). The tendency of shifting the debates on the Genocide into the legal sphere has come to the surface in the late 1980’s. In the 1990’s the coverage of the legal issues of the Genocide has become more active. As for the third millennium, it is safe to say that the legal dimension is a basic component in the debates on the Genocide. |
Vahan Melikyan
ARMENIAN QUESTION AND STAGES OF ARMENIAN SOCIETY SELF-ORGANIZATION PROBLEM
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| In the course of their development different nations have displayed different means and ways of self-organization. Not always the liberation struggles had been a priority factor heading towards creation or restoration of a sovereign independent statehood. In the old times different economic-trade systems of values and sometimes rough material and resource systems of values were dominant. Very often a comparatively fair social, i.e. communal and later city-state structures, as well as civilization, spiritual and religious values and etc. played a decisive role. For example, the recreation of the State of Israel became possible only as a result of the Holocaust. |
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