Abstract
In the shuffle of the post Cold War geopolitics of transnational threats, drug trafficking suddenly appeared as one of the new major threats to the world order. Yet the drug trade has undergone a long time-span evolution over several centuries. This challenge to regional security is all the more worrying, as it is far more complex and ambiguous, and as the threat itself is quite difficult to define precisely. Indeed, drug trade is in itself a convoluted part of the parallel world economy, but its definition overlaps that of weapons trafficking and guerrilla issues. The drug trade isn't an issue confined to sociological phenomena, or illegality. It spans over the global functioning of the economic and political spheres, and constitutes in itself a system which can be defined as the new geopolitics of drugs.
