International Terrorism: Practical Requirements and Theoretical Challenges

This article is looking forward to analyzing some reasons of governments and international Organizations’ setback in order to halter the increasing terrorism. Although there have been consensus of opinions regarding to the threats arising from terrorism, what the reason is that the international cooperation has been inefficient for campaigning against this phenomenon. This text is according to the international relations’ theories in response to the mentioned question and it has taken all opportunities and limitations of each theoretical approach of realism, liberalism and constructivism into consideration by explanatory and analytical methods. The prevalence of realism and the arising thoughts of it, have gained more attention due to the reason that the accepted realistic traditions of government have had conflicts with some of the consequences of existing mechanisms of international relations for campaigning with terrorism. From this article it can be elicited that the different understandings of governments from the phenomenon of terrorism and the discrepancy of opinions in definitions of terrorist operations have led to the conflict in recognition of meaning which is a big obstacle in international cooperation. Thus, the existing distance in governments’ priorities which are according to the national interests of each nation, has deeply influenced upon the process of international cooperation. In addition, the effort of big powers for exploiting the opportunities of international cooperation in respect to advancement of their own interests and targets is the main reason of failure in cooperation and campaign of international Organizations against terrorism.