Challenge Presented to the State Sovereignty by the International Terrorism

Abstract

International terrorism acquires new forms and intervenes with old challenges and threats among which there is a threat to the state sovereignty. The fertile soil for terrorism is offered by religious extremism, regional conflicts, drug trafficking, weapons of mass destruction. To fight all these challenges they should be thoroughly analysed and the sources and conditions for the existence of terrorism should be eliminated.New characteristics of terrorism are its international character, selffinancing, terror against civil population in order to destabilize the society and the state. This development of terrorism cannot be stopped until its roots are not cut – poverty and unemployment, social and national disparity of the nations of the world. The use of force proved to be useless in this situation. The other reason vitalizing the terrorism is separatism, for example basks in Spain. There is an increasing gap between the rich and the poor what also leads to discontent among the people. This creates positive idea of terrorism among the people; they perceive it as fight for the freedom and independence of their country or nation.The UN tries to find its place in combating terrorism by elaborating a widescale antiterrorist strategy, but still there is no unity among states concerning crucial issues –defining terrorism, solving problem of interference into internal affairs. In case of Russia it instituted National Antiterrorist Committee to combat terrorism. But still there might be created a permanent body to it, which can become an expert center, uniting efforts of non-state organizations, business community and independent experts. This center would have been responsible for cooperation of state and aforementioned actors in fighting terrorism.It is obvious that humankind should unite its efforts in combating new challenges in threats first of all by eliminating the reasons for discontent, extremism among the people. Today this is the only way of responding to international terrorism.