INSTITUTIONAL BASIS OF FIGHTING TERRORISM IN FRANCE: IT’S EFFECTIVENESS AND METHODS OF EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT

French experience of fi ghting on institutional level one of the main challenges of contemporaneity - terrorism is analysed in the article. As a consequence, the author comes to conclusion that pluralism underlies national security protection in France, in a certain moment became a factor that retards development. Nevertheless, France got considerable experience during realization of the interaction strategy in the sphere of law enforcement activities and fi ghting terrorism, relying on which, it settled down to a course of integration of law-enforcement authorities. Aside from that, special attention is paid to analyse of the reasons of terrorism expansion on the territory of France, preventive measures on fi ghting them and to the methods of effi cient improvement of antiterrorist policy.