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ARMENIA HAS A UNIQUE CHANCE
Naira Hayrumyan
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments-lrahos25181.html
20/02/2012
The crisis of the global governance threatens to escalate into a
serious conflict, and the leaders of the great powers are trying to
find a solution.
The informal summit of the foreign ministers of G 20 is underway in
the Mexican town of Los Cabos. The main issue is global governance.
Nothing is known about the results of the discussion but it is evident
that the world is trying to review a number of key issues. One of these
issues is 1% population which owns 30-50% of world goods. The global
politics is based on the needs of this 1%, they have concentrated in
their hands almost all the financial resource, keeping the remaining
99% in captivity. It has been possible to sustain the world population
at a tolerable social level for several decades, but now that the
world population is growing, and the shortage of food and fuel is
becoming an issue, the population demands social justice.
This issue is especially urgent in the U.S. while the election
campaign is underway. Representative Ron Paul who is running in the
primaries made a sensational statement: "We've slipped away from a
true Republic. Now we're slipping into a fascist system where it's a
combination of government and big business and authoritarian rule and
the suppression of the individual rights of each and every American
citizen."
Such statements by possible U.S. presidential candidates evidence
that the era of "democratic majority" is coming to end. The world has
so far been artificially divided into two large parties which shared
their stances, and decisions were taken proceeding from the opinion
of the majority even if it was 51%.
This system is exhausted and now the world needs to take into
account the opinion of the 99% of the population. The concept of
public interest is becoming dominant, and people more often wonder
whose interests the government defends, 1% or the major part of
the population.
These issues are highly relevant in Armenia where now civic engagement
is awakening, where the government is asked questions about whether
it should protect the interests of the business or the public.
Armenia is the witness of the crisis of the current economic management
in transitional countries but it is moving by inertia towards the
collapse of the system. We keep borrowing money from international
organizations, becoming the hostage of capital trying, to build the
democratic system of majority which is no longer trusted in the West.
It is noteworthy that Russia is walking against the stream. Putin
stated that strategic control will continue until it enables the world
capital fill Russia. Pro-Putin experts note as his positive feature
that he does not want to be part of the global power of capital,
imperialism. But what does he propose in return? What new system of
values does he propose? Is it only restoration of Soviet socialism
and military state?
Armenia may work out its own approach to reforms of global governance,
insisting on the reduction of financial dependence on the West and
weakening of Russian bondage regarding security issues. And most
importantly, Armenia may form a government, proceeding from the
interests of 100% and not 1% of the population. This may seem utopia
but all the other ways lead to a catastrophe, like in the case of
Greece, which is deciding now to be or not to be part of global
financial management.
Naira Hayrumyan
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments-lrahos25181.html
20/02/2012
The crisis of the global governance threatens to escalate into a
serious conflict, and the leaders of the great powers are trying to
find a solution.
The informal summit of the foreign ministers of G 20 is underway in
the Mexican town of Los Cabos. The main issue is global governance.
Nothing is known about the results of the discussion but it is evident
that the world is trying to review a number of key issues. One of these
issues is 1% population which owns 30-50% of world goods. The global
politics is based on the needs of this 1%, they have concentrated in
their hands almost all the financial resource, keeping the remaining
99% in captivity. It has been possible to sustain the world population
at a tolerable social level for several decades, but now that the
world population is growing, and the shortage of food and fuel is
becoming an issue, the population demands social justice.
This issue is especially urgent in the U.S. while the election
campaign is underway. Representative Ron Paul who is running in the
primaries made a sensational statement: "We've slipped away from a
true Republic. Now we're slipping into a fascist system where it's a
combination of government and big business and authoritarian rule and
the suppression of the individual rights of each and every American
citizen."
Such statements by possible U.S. presidential candidates evidence
that the era of "democratic majority" is coming to end. The world has
so far been artificially divided into two large parties which shared
their stances, and decisions were taken proceeding from the opinion
of the majority even if it was 51%.
This system is exhausted and now the world needs to take into
account the opinion of the 99% of the population. The concept of
public interest is becoming dominant, and people more often wonder
whose interests the government defends, 1% or the major part of
the population.
These issues are highly relevant in Armenia where now civic engagement
is awakening, where the government is asked questions about whether
it should protect the interests of the business or the public.
Armenia is the witness of the crisis of the current economic management
in transitional countries but it is moving by inertia towards the
collapse of the system. We keep borrowing money from international
organizations, becoming the hostage of capital trying, to build the
democratic system of majority which is no longer trusted in the West.
It is noteworthy that Russia is walking against the stream. Putin
stated that strategic control will continue until it enables the world
capital fill Russia. Pro-Putin experts note as his positive feature
that he does not want to be part of the global power of capital,
imperialism. But what does he propose in return? What new system of
values does he propose? Is it only restoration of Soviet socialism
and military state?
Armenia may work out its own approach to reforms of global governance,
insisting on the reduction of financial dependence on the West and
weakening of Russian bondage regarding security issues. And most
importantly, Armenia may form a government, proceeding from the
interests of 100% and not 1% of the population. This may seem utopia
but all the other ways lead to a catastrophe, like in the case of
Greece, which is deciding now to be or not to be part of global
financial management.