It's a good book that should have been welcomed by the Armenian elite in Armenia and the diaspora! Instead, the author has been heavily criticized by most mainstream Armenian organizations ... understandably so since his thinking is inherently new to a nation that has had no state - or leadership other than the church - for centuries, and has seen so much hardship that it has become to some extent unable to separate the emotional from the rational.
Libaridian essentially raises the fundamental questions that the Armenian leadership should ask itself if it seriously intents to play in the big leagues, i.e. having a viable and 'normal' UN member country as opposed to a country which would have a higher/moral agenda for dealing with the injustices of the past. His book injects pragmatism in Armenian political thinking and should be mandatory reading for anyone involved in Armenia's politics. He's clearly a patriot and wants to contribute to Armenia's political maturity in his own way.
I disagree with many of his assessments concerning the diaspora and especially ones related to the Karabakh issue, where his conciliatory approach paradoxically turns him into the idealist, away from the realist he is on everything else!
Read it if you're interested in Armenian issues and you want to discover new ideas! Even if you don't like it, it's a healthy overture from the traditional school of thought and it will give you a better grasp of the challenges facing Armenia!
