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The Narcotics Trade: A Threat to Security? National and Transnational Implications

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  • Niklas Swanstrom

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Traditional definitions of security have tended to concentrate on the state and military threats to its sovereignty. However, in the post-Cold War world, it is clear that a much more nuanced perspective is required, also considering a variety of so-called ‘soft’ security issues such as social, human and environmental threats. Furthermore, this must appreciate the extent to which these varied threats are integrated. The expanding narcotics trade provides an excellent example of the way global crime creates and facilitates this kind of integrated threat. In both production and transit regions, it generates a variety of interconnected threats to political, economic, human and military security. It thus requires solutions which integrate responses to these various threats and also operate at the local, national, regional and global level.

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  • Niklas Swanstrom, 2007. "The Narcotics Trade: A Threat to Security? National and Transnational Implications," Global Crime, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(1), pages 1-25, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fglcxx:v:8:y:2007:i:1:p:1-25
    DOI: 10.1080/17440570601121829
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    1. Bhagaban Behera, 2013. "Drug Trafficking as a Non-Traditional Security Threat to Central Asian States," Jadavpur Journal of International Relations, , vol. 17(2), pages 229-251, December.
    2. ALASMARI Khaled, 2013. "Pakistan Measures, In Controlling Narcotics Trade," Annals of Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, vol. 1(2), pages 15-23, December.

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