In the latest episode of “Dilemma”, a program dedicated to security-related issues, Member of the National Assembly Maria Karapetyan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of Philosophy Ashot Voskanian, and Head of the Research Center on Security Policy Areg Kochinyan analyze the ideological foundations of The Real Armenia.
🔹 What is the ideological essence of The Real Armenia?
🔹 What is the opposing pole—or the so-called “Unreal Armenia”—that The Real Armenia stands against?
🔹 The contrast between Real Armenia and Historical Armenia within a historical context,
🔹 Has the failure to follow the “principle of the excluded third force” diverted Armenia from the path of building an independent statehood?
🔹 Why and how did the Republic of Armenia gain independence as a “Siamese twin” or “the Hunchback of the Caucasus,” and was that status inevitable?
🔹 What kinds of compromises shaped the drafting of Armenia’s founding documents?
🔹 Under what circumstances was the theme of the Armenian Genocide included in the Declaration of Independence?
🔹 How should we interpret the principle: “The homeland is the state. If you love your homeland—strengthen your state,”
🔹 What is meant by the thesis: “Just as the soul becomes a person through the body, so too does a nation become a people through the state”?