Hello Orderers,
Sorry for being a day late with this post there is a bit of a mega disorder situation with my eye… something like a Stye but even more painful and partially blinding.
That said, I wouldn’t want to miss the opportunity to call attention to the second part of the amazing interview podcasts with Dr Armen Sarkissian, former President and PM of Armenia.
Listen to Part II here.
According to Armen: Small states like Qatar, Ireland, Singapore, Jordan, and Botswana are thriving in our disordered world. They’re smart, agile, and are implementing novel solutions to the challenges of the 21st century. So what can the globe learn from them?
In part 2 of this conversation with Dr Armen Sarkissian - Armenia’s former president and prime minister – I discuss Armen’s book, ‘The Small States Club: How Small Smart Powers Can Save the World’. We look at how: 1) successful small states could use their growing economic power to promote stability, 2) how Armenia could leverage its most unique strategic resource, its diaspora, and 3) why bringing together small states into an international club – the S20 – could actually make a big difference in helping to Order the Disorder.
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In the Ordering the Disorder segment, Jason and Alex discuss whether we’re in a world where smallness is an asset, how NATO and the EU should respond to Armenia’s geopolitical tilt towards the West, and whether the S20 could present novel ways to Order the Disorder.
Listen to Part II here.
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Orderers, If you are moved to help the plight of the refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh we recommend you donate to 'The Tumo Foundation 501(c)3' for Artsakh Teens here: https://armenia.tumo.org/t4at/
Get Dr Armen Sarkissian’s book The Small States Club: How Small Smart Powers Can Save the World - https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-small-states-club/
Armenia’s Westward shift and the new aid package: https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/Armenias-Shift-West-Draws-Ire-from-Moscow-and-Baku.html
From the Washington Post: A cry for the refugees of emptied Nagorno-Karabakh: ‘We are nobody’: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/11/david-ignatius-nagorno-karabakh-refugees-azerbaijan-enclave/
On the Mayhem in the Georgian Parliament:
https://twitter.com/OCMediaorg/status/1779820924734206064
And to read Alex’s recent article on the meaning of these crazy developments in Georgia and what they tell us about neo-populism: https://bylinetimes.com/2024/05/02/how-the-georgian-foreign-agents-bill-may-cost-it-everything-its-people-have-ever-dreamed-of-and-benefit-no-one-but-russia/