The anti-terrorist function of the state and the problem of “preventive” coordination

Introduction: the new legal institutions and technologies in the field of counter-terrorism are a matter of great importance for the theory of state and law; in this connection the author of the paper set the aim to study the formation, evolution and unification of this legal trend. Methods: the methodological framework for this study is a set of methods of scientific knowledge, among which the main ones are the methods of systematicity and analysis. Results: the author’s point of view grounded in the work is based on the antiterrorist legislation and the opinion of the competent scientific community on the issue of improving the antiterrorist function of the state at a discrete level (with a set of values for different sets of legal arguments) and the regulatory level (with a set of qualitative values of parameters of all the criteria). Based on the legal analysis of the anti-terrorist function of the state, the most popular are the coordination of the fight against terrorism and coordination to minimize the harmful consequences of terrorist manifestations. The topical blocks of issues are raised: I. features of the function system:coordination preventive antiterrorist technology, 2) coordination and human will, 3) international law and self-defense; II. transformation of terrorism manifestations and conceptual approach to counter-terrorism: 1) international self-defense, 2) modernization of statehood, 3) complex character of prevention; III. appropriateness of anti-terrorist reaction: 1) optimal prevention, 2) legal phenomena, 3) law and legislation. Conclusions: the study revealed the role of the coordination preventive anti-terrorist technology. It is established that due to the complexity of the legal registration of preventive tools and many unresolved related matters it is not possible to highlight the effective coordination of terrorism prevention in modern conditions.