Terrorism and Its Root Causes (From Traditional to Postmodern)

Context and Nowadays, one of the most important challenges of the present world, which has caused a special sensitivity in different strata of human societies and public thoughts, is terrorism. The research method is descriptive-analytic and has an applied objective. The article data have been gathered in documentativelibrary way. Terrorism is a strong threat which happens in different forms, so the defensive front is often outside. Modern terrorist organizations possess expanded organized structures and sufficient financial capacities, which enable them to carry out independent and global strategic activities and operations. Terrorism as well as all its aspects poses a great threat to the global peace and security and all countries are bound to fight it, so over ten conversations have been approved by countries to hinder and suppress various terrorist actions. There is a collection of documents according to which governments are bound to fight terrorism. The most important resolutions include the resolution no. 1540, the obligatory resolution no. 1373 of UN. In this paper, the author deals with the causes of expansion and root causes of terrorism from traditional to post-modern eras.