Teoretické a terminologické východiská skúmania problematiky vymedzenia a definovania terorizmu Prečítať

THEORETICAL AND TERMINOLOGICAL BACKGROUND FOR THE RESEARCH OF PROBLEMS DELIMITATION AND DEFINITION OF TERRORISM

Radoslav Ivančík – Jaroslav Ušiak

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Politické vedy, Volume 17, Number 3/2014, pages 91-111

Odporúčaná forma citácie článku / Recommended form for quotation of the article:

IVANČÍK, R. – UŠIAK, J. 2014. Teoretické a terminologické východiská skúmania problematiky vymedzenia a definovania terorizmu. In Politické vedy. [online]. Roč. 17, č. 3, 2014. ISSN 1335 – 2741, s. 91-111. Dostupné na internete: <http://www.politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/userfiles/file/3_2014/IVANCIK_USIAK.pdf>.

ABSTRACT

Terrorism represents one of the most serious security threats for the whole human society at the first half of the second decade of the 21^st century. No country, society or social system is immune to terroristic activities in these days. Terroristic attacks are performed in all regions of the world and present daily menace for a large number of people in many developed and developing countries. Unfortunately, nowadays, due to globalization and so-called reduction of distances, terrorism can hit anyone, anywhere and anytime. Simultaneously, it causes tremendous material and financial damages and brings considerable human loses and hardly curable mental wounds. And those are the reasons why authors, in their article, deal with theoretical and terminological problems related to this contemporary global security threat.

Key words: terrorism, security threats, human society, definitions of terrorism, teror