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    ISSUES OF ORGANIZATION OF ARMENIANCY
    Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan

    www.noravank.am/en/?page=analitic s&nid=1752
    16 April 2009

    We can meet both pessimistic and optimistic and sometimes even
    "realistic" forecasts, which are formed by a simple combination of
    "bad" and "good" scenarios, on the informational field regarding the
    current "crisis".

    Anyway it is difficult to evaluate those scenarios. The crisis
    processes change our notion of the system of values, and this,
    in its turn, makes the notion of what is "good" and "bad" rather
    relative. Under such an uncertainty the issue of the adequate
    orientation of national elite becomes of vital importance.

    And, at first, let us try to mention briefly the ongoing system
    changes:

    1. Liberal (democratic) ideology cedes its dominating position and at
    current moment some kind of multi-ideological field, which consists
    of combined universal (liberal, socialistic) and national ideological
    provisions, is formed in the leading countries. National component
    comprises the information regarding a separate civilizational unit and,
    in fact, it is the factor, which conditions the competitive ability
    of the society.

    2. The former unipolar and "overorganized" military and political
    system has changed into a multi-polar system. On this stage the
    possibility of new (even nuclear) conflicts has grown.

    3. New realias influenced the globalization. Now, this process is
    initiated not by one, but by several civilizational centres, which have
    enough spiritual, mental and material resources. Such a process intends
    both convergence (mutual influence) and confrontation (collision). As
    a result, the level of global "chaos" rises and at the same time the
    necessity of the "dialogue of civilizations" is underlined.

    The aforementioned changes inevitably influence Armenian realias. There
    is no doubt that in order to resist those new challenges, it is
    necessary not only to centralize the means we possess, but also to
    create the resources of a new quality. Among them, in our opinion, the
    elaborations of various strategies and technologies should be included.

    At the same time the every strategy supposes the clear perceptions
    of the initial situation.

    Characteristic of Armenia-Armeniancy system

    It is obvious that in the context of the aforementioned problems our
    competitive ability can be provided only when the resources of the RA,
    the NKR and Armeniancy are united. Though we should keep in mind that
    the considerable part, if not the main part, of those resources belongs
    to the Armenians who live abroad and who are of different faith and
    speak different languages. Depending on the point of residence their
    geopolitical orientation also differs. From the informational point of
    view there are some difficulties connected with the difference between
    "eastern Armenians" and "western Armenians". Taking into consideration
    all those facts, it should be stated that today the main constructive
    and uniting idea of the Armeniancy is the Armenian civilization and
    political community1.

    At the same time, one should realize that Armenian civilization, as it
    was mentioned above, is not uniform and the perception of the world
    on behalf of its different stratum very often differs. That means,
    according to those measures, our civilization can be regarded as the
    so called "split civilizations" and possibility of the fall of such
    civilizations, as it is known, is rather high.

    Thus, there is a bit paradox situation: under the newly formed
    circumstances the only guarantee of our development and survival is
    to be a united civilization unit but the current condition of that
    civilization objectively contains definite risks of degeneration.

    Accepting the objective essence of the abovementioned challenges one
    should not forget that any crisis, "negative" situation contains
    also new possibilities. Particularly, the diversity of Armeniancy
    can benefit to our national interests. For example, under the
    conditions of current civilizational collision our various faith and
    different language speaking parts can carry out a definite mission
    and become the implementers of the interests of the Armeniancy in
    different geopolitical and cultural fields. But it is obvious that the
    implementation of such a policy is possible only under the condition
    of highly organized national nature.

    On the net centric system

    Today, undoubtedly, more attention is paid to the issues of the
    organization of Armeniancy. Particularly in the publications you
    can often meet the idea that the most efficient mean of national
    organization is the formation of "net centric system of government". At
    the same time there is an impression that this notion is taken a
    bit simple. From this point of view it would not be out of place to
    touch briefly upon the history of the formation of that technology
    and its essence.

    The concept of "net centric warfare" was elaborated at the end of the
    90th of the last century by the employees of American RAND Corporation
    J. Aqvil and D. Ronfelt. The point that in the informational society
    the strength of the state (community), first of all, depends on its
    ability to inform, to get the information, to fix it in proper way is
    accepted as a reference point. According to the author's conception the
    notion of "net" supposes the cancellation of the "Centre-periphery"
    hierarchic governing method, which is characteristic of industrial
    society, and the elaboration of the system, which have no distinct
    structure, i.e. unstructured system, and which supposes non-linear
    process logic. Within such a system there is no "centre", but every
    link, constituting the part of that system, can obtain the functions
    of the governing "centre".

    The concept, offered by RAND, captured the attention of military
    strategists (D.Rumsfeld, P.Wolfovitz and etc.) and very quickly many
    "think tanks" took over the implementation of that concept. The
    department of "reorganization of Armed Forces", which on the
    assumption of net centric warfare principles implements the reforms
    of the American armed forces and carries out new elaborations,
    was established.

    Thus, "net centric" concept is:

    the system with high intellectual resources, which components can
    be adequately informed and can fix properly and fast the obtained
    information, the understanding of the state of war (the broad concept
    and not exclusively military actions) and an appropriate psychology
    and way of conduct.

    Some conclusions

    It appears from this that the implementation of "net centric"
    organization and governing technologies demands from the Armenincy
    the critical mass of intellectual and organizational resources and
    spiritual and psychological training. It is obvious that in order
    to possess and to use the resources the elite with the appropriate
    skills is necessary. It is characteristic that famous British political
    scientist Arnold Toynbee conditions the survival of the civilizations
    by the presence of such a "creative minority".

    1Thereby, let us mention that the attempt to narrow the perceptions
    regarding Armeniancy, trying to present it as an ethno-religious unit
    and not civilizational unit, definitely conflicts with our interests.
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