RECRUDESCENCE OF TERRORIST PHENOMENON NOWADAYS - THE PROLIFERATION OF ECONOMIC TERRORISM
Journal Title: Impact Strategic - Year 2009, Vol 30, Issue 1
Abstract
In the 21st century many of the phenomena that affect international security have changed radically. Factors such as economic globalization, transparency of borders, information technology have contributed to this process. The phenomenon of terrorism has also adapted at the international environment changes, after 2001 knowing an unprecedented diversification of the ways of manifestation. Evolution of the terrorist phenomenon at the beginning of this millennium, among other things, was due to strategy review and tactics of the main terrorist groups, and to division and specialization emphasis, orientation of the activities on the objectives of infrastructure, proliferation of acts of suicide terrorism and to logistical diversification of the resources. International terrorism is one of the main threats to human society and the state of national security of nations, continuing to represent a very serious danger, both for structure and social cohesion and also for the security of humans and states.1 This scourge has become so present in contemporary society, that practically there is no day in which the media does not present a terrorist act. The phenomenon has become such a spread that included the whole world, targeting both rich and poor countries, modern democracies and countries in the Third World. By his unpredictability, contempt of the modern rules of civilized life and of any reason, the assailant, who is hiding under a thousand faces, is a particularly dangerous foe. Although the whole society is marked by the cruelty of the terrorist acts and their consequences, the phenomenon is in continuous progression, his proliferation emphasizing even in the condition of the anti terrorism – war triggering.
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Ilie PENTILESCU
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