Заканата од недржавни актери во XXI век низ призмата на тројството на Клаузевиц

• Main Author: Nenad Taneski
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje 2013-06-01
• Series: Bezbednosni Dijalozi
• Subjects: non-state actors; global terrorism; islamism; asymmetric threats; al quaeda
• Online Access: http://periodica.fzf.ukim.edu.mk/sd/SD%2004.1%20(2013)/SD%2004.1.10%20Taneski,%20N.%20-%20Zakanata%20od%20nedrzavni%20akteri%20vo%20XXI%20vek.pdf

Today there still are fundamental issues that need to be addressed and revisited, with regards to our existing beliefs about the contemporary threats and their mutating nature, after September 11. In the past years, there have been events that did not go in the interest of the global Islamic Al-Qaeda movement. The wave of popular uprisings known as Arab Spring resulted in toppling long-year dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Then in May 2011, with the killing of Bin Laden, and later of other high-ranking leaders, Al Qaeda faced the most dramatic defeat by losing its ideological leader. However, twelve years after the beginning of the new millennium and the most evident defeat on all open fronts by the western powers, this asymmetric non-state enemy is still not undefeated. What are its long-term objectives? Is it a global organisation, network, insurgency movement, or ideology? What is their center of gravitation? Is it still necessary to use the term ‘enemy’ and to detect it in the face of the Middle East states, and as a key factor for an investment of huge military and civil resources in dealing with it and still using the term ‘violent extremism? This paper is aimed to give a response to some of these questions with a view to understanding why the military doctrines that existed so far and the conventional methods are not efficient in dealing with contemporary non-state threats and that the need to refine them is obvious.