Introduction: the article elaborates on contemporary aspects of increasing the effectiveness of international legal mechanisms of countering terrorism as a global threat to peace and security. Results: different ways of transformation of UN mechanisms are discussed, and many myths about international terrorism and counter-terrorism strategies as reflected in international law doctrines and states’ practices are put into question.
international terrorism, Islamic terrorism, migration crisis in Europe, global and regional security, strengthening of peace and security, contemporary challenges and threats
1. Lucker W. Istoki terrorizma // Sovrememnnyi terrorizm. Analiz osnovnykh napravleniy. Minsk: Harvey, 2000. P. 370-371.
2. Zhdanov N.V. Islamskaya kontseptsiya miroporyadka. M.: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 2003. 564 p.
3. Shestakov V. Terror - mirovaya voyna. M.: Olma-Press, 2003. P. 127.
4. Mezhdunarodnyy terrorizm: bor'ba za geopolitcheskoye gospodstvo. M.: RAGS, 2005. P. 87.
5. Lyakhov Ye. G. Politika terrorizma - politika nasiliya i agressii. M., 1987. P. 31-37.
6. Gurieva EH.G. Pravovye voprosy sotrudnichestva gosudarstv-uchastnikov SNG v bor'be s mezhdunarodnym terrorizmom: dis.. kand. yurid. nauk. M., 2004. 188 p.
7. Primakov Ye. M. Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya nakanune 21 veka: problemy i perspektivy // Foreign policy and national security of contemporary Russia. M.: Izdatel'skiy tsentr nauchnykh i uchebnykh programm, 1999. Volume 1, book 2. P. 180-194.
8. Zagaynov Ye. T. Uprezhdayushchaya samooborona v zapadnoy doktrine mezhdunarodnogo prava // MZhMP. 2006. № 2 (62). P. 29-45.
9. Glennon M.J. The Fog of Law: Self-Defense, Inherence, and Incoherence in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, 25 // Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. 2002. 539.
