Drugs as the threat to international security: Case study of Colombia-USA relations

The issue of drug trafficking is, for most societies, the actual topic. The international security is threatened every day in many different ways due to the transnational organized crime, which is a natural result of the need of a drug producer to sell the product to an end user, usually in a different country. The aim of this work is to analyze different types of threats that drug trafficking brings. The threats will be divided into four basic sectors according to Swanstrom's concept, which is based on the Copenhagen School. These sectors are: political, economic, social and military. The analysis will be performed on the case study of two specific countries, Colombia and the United States