ISSUES OF ORGANIZATION OF ARMENIANCY
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan

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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.