Problems of International Law in the Sphere of Struggle with Terrorism

The article examines the issues of international law in the field of combating terrorism, since the growing international significance of conflicts contributes to the expansion of the scope of application of a more acute, uncompromising and, at the same time, comparable means of struggle for the conflicting parties, which is terrorism. Moreover, terrorist actions, growing into the political configuration of the conflict, reflecting the goals, objectives, capabilities and tactics of the warring parties, transform terrorism into an international phenomenon classified as a global threat. This, firstly, draws attention to the conflict, giving it an international dimension. But what is perhaps more important, and this is secondly, is that terrorism is acquiring signs of a substance of international life, which, in its dangerous mobility, largely determines the state of the international social environment. The purpose of the presented research is to consider issues arising in this area regarding the construction of terrorism as a conflict-generating and influential international actor, confirming that in the fight against it, international law should cover with its influence all the components that form this construction, concentrating priority efforts on its most destructive elements. Based on the study, the author comes to the conclusion that stability in international relations will increase, if not undermine, but, on the contrary, strengthen the potential of the state. This is obvious, firstly, because there is simply no alternative to the state that even approaches the level of authority. And secondly, the state’s capabilities in the field of foreign and domestic policy objectively remain unique. Even opponents of the state-centrist model are forced to admit this, in part. It is precisely based on these opportunities, primarily in international organizations, that it is advisable to begin to create an international anti-terrorist system, the quintessence of which should be updated international law regulating the entire complex of social relations in any way related to the fight against terrorism.