Academic and Expert Potential of the Diaspora : Issues of Assessment and Organization
It is very difficult to underestimate the influence of the intellectual potential on the practical politics. In the world’s leading countries the bodies, organizations and other political actors carrying out state policy, while implementing it, take as a ground the elaborations and analysis of academic organizations as well as analytical centers and think tanks. In other words, very often, the intellectual production of the academic and expert community conditions the essence and content of the decisions taken by the authorities.The considerable part of the Armenian intellectual resources is outside the Republic of Armenia. Living in different countries of the world, including the leading powers, the intellectuals of the Armenian origin are a part of those countries’ academic and analytical organizations. They play important roles in the analytical and academic institutions and think tanks in the U.S., Russia and countries of Europe and CIS. The rational usage of the Armenian intellectual resources abroad (in both academic and expert spheres) can bring tangible benefit to both Armenia and Diaspora