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The Threat to International Security from Fragile and Failed States: Proliferation of Organised Crime
Laddaga Sara
Abstract
Fragile states pose an international threat to criminal infiltration that occurs more easily than states with
functioning governments and institutions. Fragile states, delegitimised by their own population, unable to
provide for the needs of their citizens and maintain control over their territory, have a non-functioning
government and many problems to which the legitimate state fails to respond. In such a scenario, they
become a breeding ground for criminal organisations that, becoming increasingly powerful, radicalized, and
transnational, replace the delegitimised state. Criminal actors find in these states safe havens where they
can act for their own interests, and where the proliferation of organised crime feeds on the problems and
fragilities of institutions, making them also capable of providing solutions to the population for those
problems to which the government has been unable to find solutions.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30845/ijhss.vol15p8
Article History:
Received: 25 February 2025 | Accepted: 25 March
2025 | Published: 28 April 2025
Reviewer(s):
Dr. Abdallah Imam Haruna, National College of Defence Studies, Ghana; ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0767-0675;
Phone: +233 536 106 808.
Email: [email protected] Dr. Firdous Ahmad Reshi, Higher Education Department, Jammu and Kashmir, India; Phone: +917889781240.
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected] Dr. Firdous Ahmad Reshi, Higher Education Department, Jammu and Kashmir, India; Phone: +917889781240.
Email: [email protected]
Address for Correspondence:
Laddaga Sara,Via dei Vestini 31, 66100. Chieti, Italy. +39 3270669522
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