MODERN TERRORISM AS POLITICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENON: THE ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION

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MODERN TERRORISM AS POLITICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENON: THE ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION

Journal Title: PRZEGLĄD STRATEGICZNY - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 10

Abstract

The article analyzes the main directions of interpretation of the phenomenon of terrorism in modern political science and political philosophy. In the public орinion terrorism as the most important factor of contemporary politics is often perceived very superficially. Many modern interpretations of terrorism, despite their apparent objectivity have consistently produced a stencil historical logic, based on purely external perception of terrorism as a subversive activity of individuals and small groups, guided by very different political motives. This trend is constantly reproduced by the media, creating conventional images of terrorists in political memory and thereby false perception of the true objectives they pursue and the real corporate structures that finance and direct their activities. Throughout the emerging dilemmas in the interpretation of terrorist activity in various regions of the world associated with the dominance of practices of violence, the lack of freedom and emergency situations in the modern political discourse. These practices constantly nourish the rhetoric of the “war on terror” imposing restrictions on the freedom of subjective judgments and contributing to the formation of “disciplinary power,” the basic mechanisms of which had been once extensively considered in M. Foucault’s political philosophy. The article proves the thesis that despite the stable liberal stereotypes, state terrorism should be viewed in theory as a universal matrix while all other forms of individual and group terrorism, regardless of their social, class or ideological orientation, are derived from this base. The paper proves the thesis according to which the adequate scientific definitions of terrorism contribute to the destruction of some historiosophical concepts, which in recent decades have transformed into a stable political myths.

Authors and Affiliations

Vladimir GUTOROV, Alexander SHIRINYANTS

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EP ID EP295911
DOI 10.14746/ps.2017.1.15
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