Thoughts Toward an Evolving Armenian National Project · Article #2Author’s Note: This article, the second in a series on the Armenian National Project, examines what sovereignty means for a small nation like Armenia, which throughout recorded history has experienced sovereignty for less than half of its existence. This long history explains why sovereignty remains central to Armenian survival: without it, existence itself has been repeatedly put at risk. Armenian sovereignty is also rooted in the foundational principles laid out in Articles 1 and 2 of the Constitution. Until diaspora voices are structurally included in shaping Armenia’s future, sovereignty will remain a shared but uneven inheritanceAt its core, sovereignty means having the authority to make decisions—political, economic, & cultural without external coercion. The danger lies in misjudging sovereignty itself—either by overestimating it as power or protection we do not possess, or by underestimating it, believing that small states are incapable of real sovereignty.