Croatian Sociological Association and Jesenski & Turk Publishing House
Abstract
Narkoterorizam je postao glavni međunarodni problem u posljednjih nekoliko desetljeća jer kao simbioza distribucije droge i politički motiviranog nasilja potkopava nacionalnu sigurnost, javno zdravlje i osobne slobode. Navedeni povezuje izazove koji ni na razini fenomenologije nemaju opće globalno prihvatljivo tumačenje, a dosadašnje akcije i strategije suprotstavljanja ovoj opasnosti ne daju zadovoljavajuće odgovore. Cilj je članka fenomenološki približiti pojam i izazove narkoterorizma, predstaviti njegova obilježja, analizirati glavne pristupe suprotstavljanja navedenom te predložiti poboljšanja postojećih mehanizama odgovora. Bit će korištene tri teze. Prva, trgovina drogom najveće je svjetsko ilegalno tržište, dok je terorizam generalno označen dominantnom sigurnosnom prijetnjom modernog doba. Druga, veza između krijumčara i trgovaca drogom i terorističkih skupina predstavlja potencijalnu polivalentnu prijetnju veću nego ikad prije, jer se novac stečen trgovinom drogom ulaže u organizaciju i financiranje terorističkih skupina. Treća, postojeće strategije, mjere i akcije suzbijanja trgovine drogom i terorizma nedovoljno su uspješne, te ako ne dođe do globalnog zaokreta u režimima odgovora, narkoterorizam će u skoroj budućnosti prouzročiti puno veće posljedice od zbroja pojedinačnih štetnih učinaka krijumčarenja drogom i terorizma.Narco-terrorism has become a major international problem in the last decades because as a symbiosis of drugs distribution and the politically motivated violence undermine national security, public health and personal liberties. It encompasses the challenges which do not have globally accepted interpretation, even on the phenomenology level, and that the previous counter actions and strategies aren’t producing satisfactory answers. The goal of the article is to phenomenologically bring closer the concept and the challenges of narco-terrorism, to represent its features, analyze the main approaches to countering the narco-terrorism and to offer the suggestions to improve the existing response mechanisms. In this effort three main theses will be used. Firstly, the drug trafficking is the largest global illegal market, while the terrorism is generally marked as the dominant security threat of the current time. Secondly, the connection between the smugglers and drug traffickers and the terrorist groups represents the potentially greater polyvalent threat than ever before, as the money acquired in the drug trafficking is invested in the organizing and financing terrorist groups. Thirdly, the existing strategies, measures and actions of suppressing the drug trafficking and terrorism are not on satisfactory level and if there is no global turn in the response regimes soon, the narco-terrorism will, in the near future, produce much larger consequences than the simple sum of the individual drug trafficking and terrorism
