A. G. VAGHARSHYAN, Doctor of Law, Professor, YSU;
S. H. BAGHDASARYAN, PhD in Law, Head, Legal Department,
Russian-Armenian University
SUMMARY
Тhe constitutions of states, which have adopted the concept of liberal constitutional regulation of defense relations, can be divided into three groups according to technical-legal criteria: dispersed, centralized, mixed. A special group comprises countries with atypical regulation (Japan, socialist countries, the Islamic Republic of Iran). The Republic of Armenia is in the group of countries with a dispersed technique for regulating these relations, but the peculiarities of Armenia dictate the relevance of transition to a mixed legal technique of regulation and the adoption of a number of defense institutions characteristic of this group.
The main constitutional institutions of states that have applied centralized and mixed legal methods of constitutional regulation
of the country’s defense relations are: the military service obligation, conscription and civilian work (including for women in some states); restriction or suspension of the execise of certain rights during war; a parliamentary defense committee with investigative powers, a parliamentary special committee or body with a special status that can replace parliament in time of war, a state defense council or security council; war participants and veterans support, the killed family support; regulation of civil defense; various regimes of martial law and state of emergency.