ABSTRACT
Law enforcement as currently practised in the transnational arena well serves to illuminate the issues of democracy and justice in that sphere. This chapter discusses some of the more salient developments in transnational law enforcement relating to drugs trafficking, which reflects on the possibility of a transnational democratic world order. It examines the prospect of examining the relationship between the globalization of law enforcement and democracy. The chapter also describes the contribution to work on transnational policing. It describes the slow and continuing emergence of transnational criminal law enforcement practice. Sociologists have introduced the notion of a 'global system' and have already begun the attempt to map out the transnational order and its institutions. The thesis that this emerging sociology rests on is that the transnationalization of capital and capitalist institutions has, particularly in the post-Cold War era, fundamentally changed the nature of the international system.
