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Biological terrorism is the reality of today. It is understood as the deliberate use by individuals, terrorist groups or organizations, separate structures of state bodies of biological weapons of destruction ofpeople, animals and plants in order to destroy or disable people, causing great economic, social, political, demographic and environmental losses to the country and the world community , imposing a certain line of behavior on international organizations, states, local governments in solving external and internal issues problem. The negative consequences of bioterrorism are revealed, three classes of biological agents, the main methods of combat use of biological weapons are analyzed.

Problem setting. The first decades o f the XXI century demonstrate the unrestrained, turbulent, even explosive development o f the world political process, which raised waves o f "color" revolutions, began to distort the national sovereignty o f some countries, led to a violation o f the international principle o f inviolability ofpostwar borders through military conflicts and "hybrid" wars. It is no longer possible to deny that under modern conditions there is not only a break in the bipolar and unipolar world order, but also a transition to a multipolar world with several centers o f influence. Recent research and publications analysis. Empirical approach plays important role in the study o f the international systems. It correlates with geopolitical specificity and mainly investigates contemporary interaction o f people and states, geopolitical strategies and government tactics within certain geographical regions. Empirical research is characterized by: the desire to specifically explain certain international situation (political, economic, humanitarian), that developed in certain region o f the planet, specificity o f the systemic connections between global actors; to highlight the level o f influence on behavior o f the international subjects and decisions o f national elites offollowing factors: sociohumanitarian and economic realities, national potential o f the states, cross-regional competition, directions o f actions and juridical boundaries regarding interventions o f international organizations etc. Serious destructive influence on the contemporary system o f international relations is exerted by new wars o f the 21st century: wars with terror, cyberwar, "hybrid" wars and so on.Paper objective. The purpose o f the article is to seek through systemic, phenomenological and factor-geopolitical analysis to identify the nature o f the modern international system and the nature o f real and hybrid "drivers" that stimulate its development and, at the same time, turbulence and global shifts. Hence, the ...

This article carries out the phenomenological research of the "international system" through methodological synthesis. Features and various types of this system are critically organized. The transitive type and character of the modern global system of "disbalance and mutual equilibriums" fluctuating within the vectors of unipolarity and multipolarity in the conditions of competition of centers of global influence with different capacities (the USA, the EU, China and Japan, the Russian Federation, the leaders of the Middle East) is substantiated. Article explores "geopolitical shifts" as factors that have created the global turbulence and macro fluctuations of the transitional international system. Hybrid wars became one of the most destabilizing factors of the contemporary international system, fostering its turbulence. The article proves that the hybrid war is a combination of the partisan and civil war, as well as rebellion and terrorism.