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To really understand Armenia one must read its literature. For more than fifteen centuries, the works of monks, scholars and, later, writers & poets, have largely fashioned the national identity. In the fifth century, the Armenian translations of the founding Christian texts demonstrated a desire for independence from Zoroastrian Iran, which at the time ruled over eastern Armenia. In the Middle Ages this same desire to resist foreign influence was reflected in heroic tales about the birth of the nation. Influenced by the Enlightenment & then the Romantic era, Armenian authors of the following centuries played their part in promoting various philosophical & literary movements, before the iron curtain fell in the Soviet era, choking off local creativity. The Armenian diaspora took up the baton. Finally, since the fall of the USSR, Armenian literature is enjoying a gradual renaissance -- as is the country as a whole. Adapted from the source document.

The just war theory, which grew out of medieval thought, is based on the criteria of just cause and appropriate authority. Modern political theory reformulates moral or religious arguments in political and legalistic terms, whereas contemporary political theory has to take into account the new realism, which hinges on the notion of sovereignty, and may have to critique it on behalf of a normative liberal approach. In this article, the author analyzes the elements of the classic doctrine that can be incorporated into the contemporary legalistic paradigm. Examining situations in which intervention is justified on the grounds of systematic violation of human rights, he applies the requirements for justifiable war just cause, appropriate authority and right intention to the US intervention in Iraq and finds that, even if there were good reasons for combating Saddam Hussein, the United States was by no means entitled to do so. Adapted from the source document.