TERRORISM – A DISRUPTIVE CULTURAL FACTOR IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
TERRORISM – A DISRUPTIVE CULTURAL FACTOR IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: Terrorism is a tool used to inflict terror. Depending on the degree of civilization that humanity has reached, terrorism can range from cave terrorism to cyber terrorism and can thus be committed using any method and practically everywhere. Although the methods of the attackers have changed over time, their basic values – fear, destruction and murder – have not changed. Effectively combating terrorism is not a new security responsibility for the security forces in Romania. Cold War terrorism is different from 21st century terrorism. What changed after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and especially after the terrorist attacks in the United States (USA) on September 11, 2001 (9/11), was the lethality and virulence of the intentions and goals of the terrorists. The phenomenon is an asymmetric threat. Its evolution, from a sum of dispersed terrorist acts to a peak of cruelty, fanaticism and even violence, leading to a terrorist war capable of generating terror, is the object of analysis of this small study.

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