Globalization also opens up new opportunities for overlap (including logistical, financial and operational) between terrorist networks and transnational organized crime. The ability of terrorists to attract and displace financial resources, weapons and agents around the world is greatly enhanced by cooperation with existing routes developed and maintained by transnational criminal networks. In addition, there are people who can navigate legal and illegal economic sectors (such as accountants, lawyers, notaries, bankers and real estate agents) and provide services to legitimate, criminal and terrorist clients. And while globalization has led to an increase in the volume of legitimate cross-border financial transactions and investments, it has also made it easier for criminals to launder the proceeds of crime. Globalization is not a new phenomenon. Over the past two decades, new realities have emerged that have given it greater influence over the affairs of states. This has coincided with the growing inability of States and international organizations to perform their institutional functions for the common good. This tests a number of assumptions about the future of human rights and international criminal justice. The changing priorities of the State in the area of human rights and international criminal justice reflect a subtle shift in the values of the international community. This is particularly evident in the heightened concerns of States regarding national security issues, as they are perceived in so many different ways. At the same time, the ability of states to govern and provide public services is increasingly being questioned.
Science and technology dominate the current state of globalization in a positive way and have increased human interdependence and interconnection, but with paradoxical positive and negative effects and results. They increase the power and wealth of some states while widening the gap between those states and others. This gap between the “haves” and the “have-nots” is getting bigger and bigger. As the world`s population is expected to grow from seven billion to nine billion, with disproportionate availability of food and other resources for those who need it most, social, economic and political inequalities will be exacerbated. The internal dysfunction of the State is increasing, as evidenced by the number of failed and failing States in developing and underdeveloped societies. Globalization has not only increased the power and wealth of certain States with technological resources and capabilities, including military capabilities, but has also given those States a claim to exceptionalism. This claim has also extended to some multinational corporations and other non-state actors (NSAs) because of their wealth, global activities, economic and political power, and influence over national and international institutions. For all intents and purposes, many of these multinational enterprises have become beyond the reach of the law, whether domestic or international.
As a result, they and their main actors enjoy impunity, regardless of the harmful consequences of their behaviour for humans and the environment. Environmental changes resulting from the inability of the international community to put in place an adequate control system for fossil fuel consumption and other factors affecting climate change have and will continue to have adverse consequences for certain parts of the world that will affect certain populations. As these and other negative consequences of globalization occur, it is already evident that the values and legal protections afforded to human rights, including the end of impunity for international crimes, are in decline. The “responsibility to protect” adopted by the World Summit in 2005 has never been implemented. Similarly, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Victims of Crime was never promulgated. How States and the international community will respond to the future challenges of population growth, resource scarcity, environmental disasters and other natural and human tragedies is a legitimate source of concern. The absence of an international system that regulates these human survival needs will necessarily mean sacrificing the human rights of some. All of this has negative consequences for human rights, but nothing that the international system currently offers can mitigate these consequences – only the occasional goodwill of some states. What remains to counter and mitigate the cascade of negative effects and the results of unbridled globalization on our planet are the international institutions of civil society and some concerned States. What they can do in the face of the changing world order, however, is difficult to assess. About this book`[a] captivating reading, especially when someone explores the “causes of the malaise and criticism of many of our [existing] institutions of global governance,” Ryan Ahmad Khan Gondal in the Revue québécoise de droit international (2016) In summary, transnational organized crime networks have benefited greatly from globalization and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
As a result, there is a growing need for effective international cooperation in the areas of security, intelligence and law enforcement in all countries of origin, transit and destination. No country, even the most powerful, can effectively address the challenges of transnational organized crime on its own. This is not the time to increase nationalism or the kind of rhetoric and policies that lead to political isolation. Every country, including the United States, must revitalize its engagement in international institutions and create incentives for a concerted effort to turn the tide against these transnational criminal networks. Otherwise, they will only be encouraged, activated and enriched at our expense. Decentralized democracy in political reconstruction (p. 479) Assessing the impact of security and geopolitical considerations on the protection of human rights and the pursuit of international criminal justice (p. 173) International intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in the globalizing world and how they can protect human rights and support international criminal justice (p.
575) But worse than the Counterfeit drugs or products is the recent increase in the number of human traffickers using compromised intermodal shipping containers. Illegal immigrants apprehended at ports in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States (among others) revealed after arriving in shipping containers that many of them had paid large sums of money to a criminal network for the dangerous journey in a steel box.