CHAPTER 7

Contemporary Challenges in International Relations

INTRODUCTION

In contemporary times, the world is going through various challenges like terrorism, environmental degradation, migration, poverty, human rights violation, etc. These issues capture the central stage in bilateral, multilateral as well as all intergovernmental institutions of international relations.

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

Terrorism is an act of violence aimed at destabilizing the civil order or threatening the targeted population or government. According to the UN, terrorism is any criminal act intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons, or individuals for a particular purpose and they are in all circumstances unjustifiable, ...

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