Transnational Organized Crime Analysis

The issue of transnational organized crime has been debated since early 1990s by security experts who have viewed crime group as one of many direct challenge to take over the state authority and threats to the well being of their citizens. Transnational organized crime is a collective action problem where the groups operate across borders. Transnational organized crime can also undermine the social, economic, political and military components of state power. The label ‘transnational’ is therefore not used to designate a new form of regional or global criminality. Rather, the term is recognition of how these groups have successfully leveraged recent technological and political changes. (Williams, 2008) For example, the Sinaloa Cartel has maintained
market.” These illicit products enter the U.S. through various portals along the U.S.-Mexican border such as Tijuana-San Diego, Mexicali-Calexico and etc. (Dean, 2012) When former President Felipe Calderon declared war on his country drug enforcement, he was arranging aggressive campaign against the drug trafficking organization through a key policy of his government, which the drug trafficking organizations violently resisted. Mexico itself has a close relationship with the United States included economic, territory, and security cooperation. An increase of drug cases has led U.S. involved an agreement of cooperation with Mexico to collective security in the movement of against drugs for both of states. While the United States has supplied funding and intelligence to increase Mexico's institutional capacity to address drug trafficking, it’s primary focus has been on stanching the flow of drugs into the country and domestic law enforcement. (Lee, 2014) But, Trans-Border Institute (TBI) at the University of San Diego reported that between 120,000 to 125,000 people were killed during the Calderon administration (Heinly, Ferreira, & Shirk, 2014) because Calderon's military offensive an attempt to eliminate high value leaders that stimulate cartels reaction by wave of violence and since then, the more stable organization that existed in the earlier years of the Calderon administration have fractured into many more groups may around seven organization were dominant that included Sinaloa Cartel. In Calderon administration between 2006 and 2012, fragments of some drug trafficking organization formed new polarized rivals, the Sinaloa Cartel in the western part of the country and Loz Zetas in the