ABSTRACT
The management of global security is becoming a fundamental issue and requires more responsibility and involvement from the international community. Major global challenges include increased pressure from non-state groups to play a part in international affairs. This can contribute to democratization and openness to civil society’s needs; at the same time, it can strengthen ‘uncivil’ groups, as organized crime can be defined. Organized crime is progressively increasing its ability to perform at a global level (moving resources, activities and incomes), to combine forces with other seditious groups (terrorists, paramilitaries, etc.) and to establish its ‘free areas’ inside failed and weak states, marked by ethnic and/or religious conflicts. Nevertheless, there is no common definition of organized crime or a common strategy to fight it.
