Keywords: living space, strategy, interests, message, security, self-governance, ideology, communication, classification, center

The purpose of this article is to substantiate the value and symbolic relationship of political institutions to a nation’s living space. Nations acting from a position of power have constantly forced others to accept their own perception of geography. Free nations endowed the geographical physical phenomena under their control with such symbols (names signs myths) that forever affirmed both the cultural and political-legal belonging of these spaces to their respective civilizations. Our task is to present the problem not as a subject of historical research dispute but as one of the tools of self-identification of a competitive nation. In the course of the research we applied both historical-comparative and semantic methods of analysis. As a result of the research we came to the conclusion about the regularity of the fact that different civilizations have different often mutually exclusive approaches to the same geographical space. Competitive is that community which in the conditions of historical justice is able to edit the events of the past and adjust the concepts underlying their civilizational identity. All of the above provides an opportunity for a developing and competitive nation with the help of historical facts and the hard work of civil society to refute the myths created by others about these spaces to deprive them of their rational historical and legal basis and to form legitimate claims to these physical mental and virtual spaces.

Published: 2019, “Scientific Artsakh”, No. 2(3), Yerevan: AEGMM, p. 471