Main Approaches to Understanding the Nature of the Terrorism Concept in Domestic and Foreign Legal Science

In this article, the basic doctrinal approaches of domestic and foreign legal science to understanding the nature and the specific features of the concept of "terrorism" are subject to comparative legal analysis. Special attention was paid to the signs of terrorism, which allow to distinguish this phenomenon from similar concepts, as well as to identify the reasons for the lack of a universal definition of terrorism. It has been concluded that terrorism is a complex transnational phenomenon that includes the goals, methods, means and actions of terrorists, the results of similar actions that threaten world security. It is also proved that the complexity of producing a universal definition of terrorism is determined by the richness of the “terrorism” phenomenon itself, which constitutes a “permanent evolutionary system”. Differences in approaches to the definition of terrorism are explained by differences in the social and state systems, and the presence of different schools of law, and, consequently, different interpretations, which are natural minds of scientific development. Based on the analysis of doctrinal sources, the author proposes the author's definition of terrorism. Terrorism is a dangerous or threatening act that is committed in public and that threatens public safety and is aimed at creating in a society an atmosphere of fear, anxiety, oppression with the aim of directly or indirectly influencing any decision or denying it in the interests of the guilty. It is also concluded that terrorism is of a transnational global character, and therefore a concerted effort is needed to find ways to combat it not only from the individual states that have been victims of this crime, but also from the international community, as well as the international community. security of mankind. The international community should confront this negative phenomenon of modern reality