Перспективи концептуалізації  статусу "держава-терорист" у міжнародному праві

Andrii CHVALIUK

doi:10.31617/3.2023(129)01

Authors

Andrii CHVALIUK Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9795-2734

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31617/3.2023(129)01

Keywords:

terrorism, international terrorism, terrorist state, international legal terminology, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Abstract

Despite the existence of the UN Convention on Combating the Financing of Terrorism, terrorism remains a rather blurred concept, depending on the point of view. Individuals who are separatists and terrorists for some, appear as "freedom fighters" for others. In national law, a person is recognized as a terrorist by a court decision or the expressed position of a political entity, when after an explosion the official authorities recognize this event as a terrorist attack. While in international law, a terrorist receives his status after he is called a terrorist by a subject of international law. Logically, a similar approach should be applied not only to individuals and organizations, but also to individual states. The purpose of the article is to clarify the prospects for the emergence of the category "terrorist state" in international law. To achieve it, scientific methods were used: historical and legal, systemic analysis, comparison, generalization. The author established that the concept of terrorism in its "pure form" has not yet been formulated in international law. It has no official status and the term "terrorist state" is not used in UN documents, which makes it difficult to qualify some actions as international terrorism. The article highlights the key features of state terrorism: the global goal of influencing regional or world political processes; targeting of the terrorist act on citizens or the territory of another state; direct connection between the perpetrators of the terrorist act and its organizers - the country's top military and political leadership. And it was concluded that in order to establish the term "terrorist state" in international law, the term "international terrorism" should first be introduced and established, the category of these crimes should be included in the Rome Statute, thus giving the International Criminal Court the appropriate jurisdiction to consider the specified cases, and only then proceed to defining and enshrining the status of "terrorist state" in acts of international law.

Author Biography

Andrii CHVALIUK, Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs

PhD (Law), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of administrative law, process and administrative activity

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