EMERGING TREND OF TRANSNATIONAL THREATS IN THE REGION AND THE ROLE OF BORDER GUARD BANGLADESH (BGB)

Authors

  • Brigadier General Syed Ahmed Ali, ndc NDC

Keywords:

TRANSNATIONAL THREATS

Abstract

Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) poses a significant and growing threat to
national and international security, with dire implications for public safety, public
health, democratic institutions, and economic stability across the globe. Not
only a criminal networks expanding, but they also are diversifying their activities,
resulting in the convergence of threats that were once distinct and today have
explosive and destabilizing effects. The international community is confronted
with an increasing level of transnational crime in which criminals conduct in one
country has an impact in another or even on several others. Drug trafficking,
human trafficking, computer crimes, Global terrorism and a host of other crimes
can involve actors operating outside the borders of a country which might have
a significant interest in stemming the activity in question and prosecuting the
perpetrator. Bangladesh also not out of it, faces a host of transnational security
threats –starting from terrorism, arms and drug smuggling, human trafficking,
extremism, insurgency movement, financial crime and few others that jeopardize
its growing economy, impede social and political development. Bangladesh being
geo-strategically significant for a number of reasons:(1) It is world’s 7th most
populous nation with more than 161 million people; (2) It is also the third largest
Muslim nation in the world in terms of demographic strength;(3) Bangladesh sits
in close proximity to two would be superpowers- China and India, if unchecked,
the transnational problems facing the country will have serious consequences for
this entire region.

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Published

2017-06-30

How to Cite

Brigadier General Syed Ahmed Ali, ndc. (2017). EMERGING TREND OF TRANSNATIONAL THREATS IN THE REGION AND THE ROLE OF BORDER GUARD BANGLADESH (BGB). NDC E-JOURNAL, 16(1), 35-55. Retrieved from https://ndcjournal.ndc.gov.bd/ndcj/index.php/ndcj/article/view/199