CONTEMPORARY EURASIA VOLUME VI (1) Contemporary-Eurasia-VI-1-engl | Page 5

RUBEN SAFRASTYAN
problem - it ensures the security. However, it is largely deterministic
and puts the Armenian policy on the international platform into fairly
strict limits.
At the same time, ladies and gentlemen, the world offers new
opportunities for the states like Armenia. These opportunities are
related to the fact that along with the traditional space in our time,
there is the different, virtual scope - so-called cyberspace. The
traditionally basic factors of classical geopolitics, such as area,
population, geographical location, the economic situation and so on,
lose their seniority. Thereby Geopolitics loses its significance in its
classical form. The new form of Geopolitics becomes essential. Like
the traditional one, it has been directed to master the space and
maintain the control. However, in this case we are dealing with
cyberspace. Thus, the new geopolitics is the geopolitics of cyberspace.
It hasn’t replaced, but accompanied the classical Geopolitics. One can
also say it exists in parallel with it, creating its own system.
The new Geopolitics needs new paradigms. In the case of Armenia
we offer to base one of them on the idea of the Armenian civilization.
We proceed from the fact that the Armenian people have created
spiritual values and expressed their identity for millennia. All these
values combine the phenomenon we call the Armenian Civilization.
Of course, this idea is one of the possible paradigms. We should also
use others based on different ideas. We are interested in the area of
cyberspace, where information warfare is launched. However, this
issue does not belong to the subject of our report.
The use of “civilization paradigm” in Geopolitics in cyberspace
provides benefits for Armenia. As it is one of the oldest currently
existing civilizations in the world and has had continuous operation
for several thousand years. This fact is an objective indicator, exactly
the same as the 130 th -131 st position on the territory, population or
GDP. The use of this indicator makes it possible to overcome the
complex of “the country from the bottom of the list” in the
geopolitical paradigm, or at least in the cyberspace.
The implementation of our civilization paradigm of “cyberspace
geopolitics” should maintain the control over the distribution area of
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