Citation

Swanstrom N. Glob. Crime 2007; 8(1): 1-25.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/17440570601121829

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

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.