ABSTRACT
International policing is often invoked as the inevitable answer to global threats such as terrorism and drug trafficking. To the extent that terrorists and drug traffickers operate beyond national borders, states need to cooperate internationally to suppress the phenomenon. From a problem-solving perspective, states can hardly be justified in refusing to cooperate at an international level against terrorism and drugs. In fact, if we accept that global threats must be fought collectively for the struggle to succeed, then the failure of a state to cooperate can only be attributed to a fatal lack of awareness, if not outright complicity with the criminals.
