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IZZIVI ZOPERSTAVLJANJA TERORIZMU V JUGOVZHODNI EVROPIorder to be more specific and more successful in prosecuting acts of terrorism,there are many sub-articles to this definition which explain which actsMacedonia considers terrorism.Every state, with its national interests and surroundings, constitutes a specificcase. Each tries to define terrorism explicitly in order to protect its citizens.This is one of reasons that in various definitions of terrorism we easily recognisethe same elements: violence, force, political acts, fear, terror, threat, strategy,psychological effects, victim and many more. Taking this into considerationalong with understanding threats to our societies and countering them, itis impossible to come up with a single definition to describe terrorism ingeneral. Different perspectives on understanding threats and protectingnational interests will always produce different definitions of terrorism andcountermeasures. Some will be very successful whereas some will create moreproblems. The old definition of terrorism in the Macedonian Criminal Law wasvery general and full of gaps. Today, this definition has become so extensivethat each subsection is a separate definition by itself. Every society seeks toimprove its security systems. This means that threats will also change their formand type and will adjust to any improvements in finding new “innovative” waysto circumvent them and reach the desired goal. This process, through time, iswhat makes terrorism so flexible 2 . Looking from a bird’s-eye perspective, itseems that security systems and terrorism are related in a closed circle.CounterMeasuresSecuritysystemTerrorismTerrorismflexibility2Bruce Hoffman - “Inside Terrorism”, p. 20.114