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AGGRESSOR’S BEHAVIOR TERRORISM DETERMINANTS WITHIN NEW WARS
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The history of mankind demonstrates that the most difficult task has always been and remains the maintenance of society and social life in an orderly, balanced and dynamic state of optimal viability. The depressing regularity of social cataclysms, wars, crises and local conflicts convincingly testifies to the extreme complexity of this task. This complexity, however, does not negate the need and importance of scientific support for specific modern forms of violence and the development of new theoretical and empirical approaches to their research. The purpose of this article is to enrich, and, perhaps, even deepen, the modern understanding of the of «new wars» by means of detailed characterization of the aggressor's behavioral aberration within the analytical optics developed on the basis of such cruel and violent actions as terrorism. The methodology of the given study bases on the principle of historicism allowing to consider the war in its development in space and time. Using the method of situational analysis at the example of Russian aggression against Ukraine, this study managed to avoid the gap between theory and practice. As well the article contains a researchanalytic review of the body of scientific literature, aimed at outlining the paradigmatic framework for conceptualizing the phenomenon of «new wars». While conducting the research it was found that the behavior of the aggressor in the conditions of the new war has a clearly expressed terrorism determinism, which qualitatively transforms the nature and methods of war. Within the analysis of the changing the war process format which is now based on the logic of terrorism, the study’s main emphasis is placed on two forms of terrorism - state terrorism and information terrorism. Reconstructing the course of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022, it was found that the attribute characteristic of this war is the combination of two aforementioned forms of terrorism. This article contains topics and provisions that may cause discussion. Nevertheless, it allows to go beyond the traditional discourse of security, provoking the exit of scientific research to a qualitatively new level of theoretical reflection of the modern security challenges emanation.
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