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Global Terrorism

Introduction

Terrorism is a concept that in today's world, like many other concepts related to political, security and functioning of the countries in the international arena, subject to interpretations both by politicians, researchers, experts and ordinary citizens of states (Bird, 106). From the standpoint of preventing terrorism the most important issue, which allows countries to take action counterterrorism is to formulate appropriate definition of terrorism. 

You can argue over whether the wordings of the common, accepted by all members of the international community actually qualitatively change the degree of effectiveness of their counter-terrorist operations. No doubt, however, that the absence of such a definition makes it difficult to fight terrorism. This is due to, inter alia, the international community is essential for the state of international law in the fight against terrorism (Bird, 106). Due to the fact that international law was created by representatives of the governments to regulate the relations between the countries is, it does not contain regulations concerning the conflict played out at the state level - non-state entity. From the standpoint of international law one of the biggest problems in combating terrorism is the lack of legal and international legal personality of individuals and of terrorist groups. Global terrorism is by its nature, a phenomenon that cannot be classified because of the idea that they serve. In conducting research on this phenomenon should be aware of its utilitarian nature. Terrorism is a method of achieving the goals of a political nature (Bernholz, 317). Two key features are its immanent qualities, it is the political nature of intentions, which are used and the use of violence or threat to use it for their implementation. 

War and Terrorism

In the absence of a shared definition and binding, the international legal theory prevalent in Western countries believes that a terrorist act - and a terrorist organization - is characterized by the indiscriminate use of violence against a civilian population with the intent to spread panic and coerce a government or an authority in international politics (Blomberg, Brock & Mody, 01). The source of terrorism, they add, there are always ideological or political reasons (and this sets him apart from criminal conduct motivated by personal reasons, such as the pursuit of profit or personal vendetta). But this interpretation - authoritatively restated by Antonio Cassese- remains highly problematic and is not welcomed by many authors, not just Muslims, because, first, does not take into account the condition in which people are oppressed by the violence of the occupying forces. These authors argue that the "freedom fighters" or partisans in the struggle for the liberation of their country - the South Africans who fought against 'apartheid or the Palestinians for decades that "resist" the occupation of their territory by the State of Israel - cannot be considered terrorists, whatever the military operation that they put in place. In these cases the shedding of blood of innocent civilians, as prohibited under international law as a war crime - first of all by the Geneva Conventions of 1949 - should not be ...