Each chapter examines how drug trafficking affects a certain security issue, such as rogue nations, weak and failing states, protracted intrastate conflicts, terrorism, transnational crime, public health, and cyber security. This book provides an understanding of how an array of threats to international security are exacerbated by drug trafficking.

Preface
Chapter One: The Scope and Scale of the Issue
Chapter Two: Patterns of International Drug Trafficking
Chapter Three: Narco-States
Chapter Four: Fragile States
Chapter Five: Intrastate Conflict and Terrorism
Chapter Six: Transnational Organized Crime
Chapter Seven: Human Security and Global Health
Chapter Eight: Cyberspace and Cybersecurity
Chapter Nine: Ways Forward

Paul Rexton Kan is professor of National Security Studies and former Henry L. Stimson Chair of Military Studies at the US Army War College. In February 2011, he served as the Senior Visiting Counternarcotics Adviser at NATO Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan.