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The article considers the legal and political transformation of the Nagorno-Karabakh-Azerbaijan 100-year conflict in the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet periods of its history. The centennial experience of Azerbaijan-Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is strictly inaccurate for both policy-makers and mediators, both for law and policy theorists. They are viewed from the point of view of the main events and outcomes of the discussed circles. It is shown how Nagorno-Karabakh has reached a state of de facto international status from the disputed territory of 1918-1920 as a party to the conflict and negotiation process, protecting its sovereignty in the battlefield due to armed confrontation and political struggle. The author touches upon the issues of the conflict of legal and political factors in the international arena, the overcoming of which can play a decisive role in the recovery of the international life.
This article is about the role of CSTO in assuring the security of RA. It analyzes the current comprehensive security strategy of the CSTO. This article also analyzes and assesses the economic and political-military relations of the CSTO member countries with RA and Azerbaijan. In addition, it highlights the new challenges of the CSTO development as such. There is an assumption in the article that the impediments for the institutional effectiveness of the organization are related to the different interests of some member states. They hinder the effective development of common security policy and coordinated foreign policy approaches in frames of CSTO.
This paper presents and analyzes the alterations in foreign policy approaches from Barack Obama administration to Donald Trump’s presidency, as well as
the policies of Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Rouhani in resisting American pressures and finding the path forward. The author also evaluates the sanction mechanisms imposed by the U.S and the context around the nuclear deal. The article discusses the changes in the US regional policy, inter alia the noticeable increase in pressures on Iran during the presidency of Donald Trump, including the application of new sanctions, isolation of Iran, and encouragement of popular uprisings in the country. The alterations in the ambitions of the American administration are evident. If Democrat Barack Obama did his best to exert full control over Iranian nuclear program through sanctions and negotiations, the Republican Trump is not going to apply to negotiations and is obviously trying to influence Iran through pressures and, if possible, to topple down the regime in Tehran.
Public opinion creates reality in a democratic system. Therefore, the role of Public Relations specialists is invaluable in all spheres of the modern world, from policy to culture, from state to private. Public relations is directly connected with the democracy level in the country. While PR is perceived as a “well developed” (but
at the same time very dynamic and always changeable) science in the West, it is quite a new profession at the stage of its development in independent Armenia. Our researches show that along with the fast-changing world of information and communications technology, the tools and techniques for drawing public attention have also been changed.
The article examines the concept of democracy as a form of government when the government is responsible for the actions of its citizens, and citizens carry out their interests through the representatives elected by them, in the conditions of their competition and cooperation. Democracy cannot be consolidated if the democratic transition is not over. It is considered to be completed when all the branches of government – legislative, executive, and judicial, are largely independent of the military, religious and other authoritarian institutions.
In the article, on the bases of analysis of modern theoretical concepts of civic activism, it is demonstrated, that the recent changes in the socio-political life of the
societies created a new model of the citizen. From the point of view of civic culture, we are witnessing the transformation from the allegiance to the assertive type of citizen. The emergence of assertive citizen implies new models of political participation such as nonformal and civic activism as a tool for democratic participation. Having into consideration these new trends, in the article it is shown, that in Armenia during the recent years the civic culture based on civic activism has become as an effective tool from the point of view of democratic participation.
The article is devoted to the study of various approaches to the interpretation of the concept of parliamentarism. In particular, the main points of view of the interpretation of this phenomenon are considered in political and juridical science, due to the political and juridical essence of this phenomenon. It should be noted, that the approaches of different authors are compared. The complexity and versatility of parliamentarism are underlined. The theoretical and methodological foundations of parliamentarism are revealed. It is shown that parliamentarism includes the political culture of this nation,the degree of legal consciousness, the traditions of political representation.