12.12.2012
"21st CENTURY", N 2, 2012
Вышел в свет второй номер журнала «21st CENTURY» за 2012г. В него вошли статьи, посвященные проблеме консюмеризма (Эрик Ассадурян), основным тенденциям развития СМИ в новообразованных странах Восточной Европы (Нвард Мелконян, Татьяна Протс, Олена Мраморнова), гуманитарным кризисам (Ованес Никогосян), идеологии пантюркизма и Арцахскому вопросу (Давид Бабаян), а также перспективам особого партнерства между Арменией и Китаем (Симон Сараджян).
Ниже представляем аннотации статей на английском.
Эрик Асадурян
РАСЦВЕТ И ПАДЕНИЕ ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЬСКИХ КУЛЬТУР
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| In the 2009 documentary The Age of Stupid, a fictional historian who is possibly the last man on Earth looks at archival film footage from 2008 and contemplates the last years in which humanity could have saved itself from global ecological collapse. As he reflects on the lives of several individuals – an Indian businessman building a new low-cost airline, a British community group concerned about climate change but fighting a new wind turbine development in the area, a Nigerian student striving to live the American dream, and an American oilman who sees no contradiction between his work and his love of the out-doors – the historian wonders, “Why didn’t we save ourselves when we had the chance?” Were we just being stupid? Or was it that “on some level we weren’t sure that we were worth saving?” The answer has little to do with humans being stupid or self-destructive but everything to do with culture. |
Нвард Мелконян, Татьяна Протс, Олена Мраморнова
ОСНОВНЫЕ ТЕНДЕНЦИИ РАЗВИТИЯ СМИ В НОВООБРАЗОВАННЫХ СТРАНАХ ВОСТОЧНОЙ ЕВРОПЫ
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| The article aims at exposing the features of the media institution, particularly, its operation under conditions of transformation and presents a review of the basic functions performed by this institution in post-Soviet countries. In transitional societies the role and status of mass media differs from those in the countries with developed democracy. The freedom of speech and thought, political and ideological pluralism, the right to receive and spread information, etc. have become a reality. Media not only react to political events, but also affect them. It is part of the politics: the media create the agenda, become a mediator and instrument in shaping domestic and foreign policy, adjusting and changing the public opinion. |
Ованнес Никогосян
ПЕРЕХОДЯ РУБИКОН: УСЛОВИЯ ГУМАНИТАРНОГО КРИЗИСА
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Аннотация
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| The World War I ended up with massive losses to all sides, total death toll of 40 million people and huge devastations to the world economy. The first ever universal inter-governmental body – the League of Nations – was established in 1920 by the decisions of Paris Peace Conference, as member-states accepted their “obligations not to resort to war” and maintain justice among “organized peoples”, with due respect to “international obligations” (Art. 13) and under the threat of universal sanctions (Art. 16). In a pursuit to do the homework, the US Secretary of State Frank Kellogg together with his French colleague, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand worked out what would later be remembered as the Briand-Kellogg Pact, meant to stop massive wars in the future, and in fact – outlaw wars of aggression. The contemporary world was so shocked by the atrocities and devastations of WWI, that Briand and Kellogg were awarded Nobel Peace Prizes (in 1926 and 1929 - respectively). However, two years after that an original signatory power – Japan – invaded in China/Manchuria (1931), and 10 years after that, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering another World War. |
Давид Бабаян
АРЦАХСКАЯ ПРОБЛЕМА И ИДЕОЛОГИЯ ПАНТЮРКИЗМА
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Аннотация
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| The Artsakh problem is a crucial issue not only for the Armenian people and Armenian statehood, but it also has been on agenda of global geopolitics since long ago, especially in the context of the strategically important location of Transcaucasia where the interests of global and regional actors intertwine and clash. |
Симон Сараджян
АРМЕНИЯ И КИТАЙ: ДОВОДЫ В ПОЛЬЗУ ОСОБОГО СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВА
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| There is hardly an international affairs expert left who has not lamented the unpredictability of the post-Cold War world (even if Francis Fukuyama might still be claiming that history has ended). But there is one trend in the international affairs that most of these experts predict will probably continue for years to come: the rise of China. For many of them, the question is no longer whether China will become the world’s dominant economic power, but rather when this will occur. The International Monetary Fund and Goldman Sachs are betting on, 2016 and 2030 respectively. The Middle Kingdom already leads the world in such spheres as exports, manufacturing, and foreign exchange reserves. As for those who may have doubts about how far the Chinese economy has progressed technologically since Mao Zedong urged Chinese peasants to make iron in backyard furnaces, they should consider the following fact: the world’s fastest supercomputer in 2010 was China’s Tianhe-1A. |
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