The article analyzes the ways for presenting and interpreting the phenomena of social reality by means of the methodology of various research programs. We prove that "the discourse of terrorism" is a product of liberal ideology. It implicitly contains specific value judgments that are characteristic of this ideology, and its conscious use implies that one agrees to its "non-obvious" fundamental principles. Our purpose was to present some arguments in favor of the new interpretation that has the features of scholarly novelty. As a result of this study, we have formulated the concept of terrorism as an element of violence that calls into question the already existing monopoly of a sovereign on violence; liberal ideology consistently denies the sovereignty of the state and, by definition, invests itself with the right to make decisions with respect to all sovereignties, i.e. it considers itself a source of sovereignty.
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