Lysak S. Mechanisms of public administration in the sphere of prevention and counteraction to terrorist financing

The thesis studies the issues concerning the creating and implementation of the public administration mechanisms in the field of prevention and counteraction to terrorist financing. The object of research is the process of formation and implementation of public administration mechanisms in the sphere of prevention and counteraction to terrorist financing. The peculiarities of terrorism as a threat to national security, which determines the specifics of public administration in the field of prevention and counteraction to economic crime, have been established. The properties of terrorism were identified within the forms of its manifestation as: 1) type of organized socio-political crime; 2) socio-political phenomenon, which should be solved through; 3) threat to the national and global economy; 4) the result of social, political, economic and local conflicts. According to that the reasons of terrorism were identified and divided into such groups: national, political, religious, psychological, social and economic. The reasons determine the specifics of the terrorist organizations activities, which in turn affects the sources of their funding, have been established. In general, this allowed us to identify the following signs of terrorism as a threat to national security: the real danger to public life due to dangerous actions or their threats; public nature, which is associated with conveying a certain message to society; creation of striking fear, oppression, tension in society through psychological influence; accompanied by human sacrifice and social damage; accompanied by human casualties and social damage. The abovementioned things characterize terrorism as a threat to national security in the context of the following components: national interests, territorial integrity, economic stability, social consensus, state sovereignty. In the context of this, it has been established that the prevention of terrorism is a special object of public administration, which allows to minimize the terrorist challenges to society