International Politics, What Do You Essay

A threat to security, that continues to grow ever since the beginning of the twentieth century, is that of drugs and national and international crime that is directly linked to it. The U.S. government is actively implementing policies of fighting illegal drug trafficking and use both nationally and internationally. The cooperation in this matter between Mexico, the main gate for illicit drugs from Latin America and the U.S. is vital. The U.S. President approved in 2007 the list of major illicit drug producing or trafficking countries that was to be submitted to the U.S. Congress in 2008. Among the major players in the field of illicit drugs were: Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru. Meanwhile, Europe came under the threat of massive illicit drugs entering the continent through Africa, so the issue gained in proportions and it was requiring the close cooperation of all those countries that are willing to agree upon the fact that illicit drugs are the basis for a serious threat to security through their mass production of international crime.

As presented above, from a modern international politics stand, the major security threats are resulting from classic as well as from new sources. Ethnic and regional conflicts are rather old, just as the illicit drug producing and trafficking is nothing new. but, the global warming due to aggressive urbanizing and stark industrialization, the attack of viruses like HIV, the ones that cause bird flu or swine flu, alongside with old ones that were believed to have been eradicated, are produced by all kinds of new sources.Poverty, illiteracy and corrupt governments are the main causes for international piracy, spread of epidemics, high mortality rates and the extinction of entire populations due to the lack of fresh water and starvation. International cooperation confronts new and more complex challenges that although not insurmountable, require immediate attention and action. Although individual action is welcome under any circumstances, globalization has made individual efforts alone rather futile. More than ever, the future in preventing security risks rests on the cooperation between nations.

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