Scientific approaches to defining the nature of terrorism

The article is devoted to the study of the concept of ‘military terrorism’. The author analyses various approaches to the classification of modern terrorism, including in the context of the legal regime of martial law. The current state of our country is characterised by an increase in the number of terrorist acts on its territory, and this, in turn, is a serious problem and a reason for developing a new conceptual framework and approaches to combating a new type of terrorism. The research paper substantiates various classifications of terrorism and provides a comparative analysis thereof. The article also provides examples of international experience in combating terrorist acts, judicial practice and national legislation. Given the extraordinary diversity, linkage and intertwining of forms of terrorism and new threats, the classification of new types of such criminal phenomena is necessary to ensure the functioning of the national system of counter-terrorism in Ukraine. That is why, first of all, it is necessary to carry out a logical construction of the classification of the conceptual apparatus of terrorism in Ukraine in order to apply various methods of combating it in the future.