Drug Trafficking and International Security (eBook)

Paul Rexton Kan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
232 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-4759-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Each chapter examines how drug trafficking affects a certain security issue, such as rogue nations, weak and failing states, protracted intrastate conflicts, terrorism, transnational crime, public health, and cyber security. This book provides an understanding of how an array of threats to international security are exacerbated by drug trafficking.

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Global drug trafficking intersects with a vast array of international security issues ranging from war and terrorism to migration and state stability. More than just another item on the international security agenda, drug trafficking in fact exacerbates threats to national and international security. In this light, the book argues that global drug trafficking should not be treated as one international security issue among many. Rather, due to the unique nature of the trade, illegal drugs have made key threats to national and international security more complex, durable, and acute. Drug trafficking therefore makes traditional understandings of international security inadequate.Each chapter examines how drug trafficking affects a particular security issue, such as rogue nations, weak and failing states, protracted intrastate conflicts, terrorism, transnational crime, public health, and cyber security. While some texts see drug trafficking as an international threat in itself, others place it under the topic of transnational organized crime, arguing that the threats emanate from criminal groups. This book, on the other hand, provides a thorough understanding of how a vast array of threats to international security are exacerbated by drug trafficking.

Autor

Paul Rexton Kan is professor of National Security Studies and former Henry L. Stimson Chair of Military Studies at the US Army War College. In February 2011, he served as the Senior Visiting Counternarcotics Adviser at NATO Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Inhalt

PrefaceChapter One: The Scope and Scale of the IssueChapter Two: Patterns of International Drug TraffickingChapter Three: Narco-StatesChapter Four: Fragile StatesChapter Five: Intrastate Conflict and TerrorismChapter Six: Transnational Organized CrimeChapter Seven: Human Security and Global HealthChapter Eight: Cyberspace and CybersecurityChapter Nine: Ways Forward

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Peace and Security in the 21st Century
• Zusatzinfo: 8 Illustrations including: - 8 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-4759-2 / 1442247592
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-4759-8 / 9781442247598