The presently widely-adopted standpoint is that September 11, 2002, was a turning point of both the contemporary international relations and the relation towards terror. A list of definitions on terror shows that before September 11 there had been definitions that included a moral component as well, and therefore in some cases the terror could be considered as justified. In keeping with this perception the US created their own foreign policy and openly supported some countries. However, after September 11, the US embarked on the world-scale fight against terror. The author analyzes American strategy of anti-terror struggle and its implications for the South-European region. In the context of this struggle, the author calls for special attention on the process that Ole Weaver called "securitization" and which some theorists assess as serious threat to contemporary international relations. The securitization implies a tendency of political subjects to dramatize an issue so that it seems to have an absolute priority. The securitization leads to that the anti-terror struggle is conducted at all levels and highly affects an ordinary citizen. The boundary between the public and the private is thus shifted in favor of the public, and the privacy is pushed into the background, with indirectly undermining some basic principles of democracy aimed to the protection of the private sphere of living. A tendency of adjusting the foreign policies of the countries of the South European region with the US policy has been present for a longer time already. The Balkan states try to keep pace with the United States and to join the anti-terror struggle, but they often do it in an insufficiently thought-out and productive way, unadjusted to the realistic evaluation of own capabilities to provide a concrete contribution to the US global efforts, where a simple imitation is not always the best way of doing it. The author warns that the only area in the Balkans where the threat of terror really exists is Kosovo, and that in this connection the international community has a relatively one-sided view of the matter, based on a discriminating awareness of terror. The forthcoming address of the issue of Kosovo and Metohija status will reveal to what extent the threat of terror in this area is "built into" the projected process of negotiations on the final status of Kosovo.