Spatial-temporal analysis of terrorist activity: approach to the study and regional peculiarities

Abstract

The article deals with the spatial-temporal approach to the investigation of terrorist activity. The integrated indicator of the intensity of terrorist activity is proposed, and based on it six regions of terrorist activity in the world are identified: Asian, Middle Eastern, North African, South African, American and European. Each region is characterized by specific historical features, as well as by difference in parameters such as intensity, formedness and scale of terrorist activity. At the case of one of terrorist regions, the model of territorial structure of terrorist activity, which consists of three zones differing in intensity and other parameters, is described in detail. In the article the multiscale principle is implemented - terrorist activity is analyzed at three major territorial levels: global, country (a case study of Russia) and regional (a case study of the South of Russia)