La transición de los movimientos insurgentes-guerrilleros a métodos de lucha terroristas radicales: características retrospectivas

• Andrey Ivanovich Baksheev Krasnoyarsk State Medical University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7607-731X
• Sergey Alekseevich Butorov Russian State University of Tourism and Service https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8554-6472
• Evgeniya Alekseevna Kurenkova Moscow Region State University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6178-2681
• Aleksey Nikolayevich Kuraev K.G. Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technologies and Management (First Cossack University) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7771-3701
• Andrey Vyacheslavovich Rybakov Moscow Aviation Institute https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4909-199X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.3971.50

Keywords: radicalism, terrorism, civil war, guerrilla war, multipolar world

Abstract

The realities of modern reality indicate that there are a significant number of unjustified attempts to resolve controversial issues based on the use of force. The article shows the evolutionary processes of the transition of insurgent-guerrilla movements to radical terrorist methods of struggle in the period of 1991-2001 and reveals the reasons for this process. The article analyzes the definition of “international terrorism” in the modern sense, analyzes the characteristic features of international terrorism of the 1990s, the reasons for its spread, new forms of terrorist activity. The following methods were used in the study of the chosen topic: historical-genetic, comparative-historical; problem-chronological, the method of historical modeling. Authors conclude, there is no doubt that all the insurgent-guerilla movements, without exception, pursued their own goals. The most effective way to achieve them at the turn of the century turned out to be precisely terrorist attacks, which, with all the strength of state structures, were not possible to fend off. Thus, terrorism has become a strong weapon in the hands of weak players in the international arena.

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