"Globalization poses serious threats without effective border security and mitigating the risk posed by transnational organized crime and terrorism. Thus, silos between stakeholders must be broken down to confront the complex challenges to border security posed by globalization transnational organized crime and terrorism. The legitimate flow of people, money, and materials between countries is a practice as old as the establishment of nation states. However, the scale of this flow has increased exponentially. Now countries rely more and more on free and open borders to facilitate legitimate trade and commerce. Legitimate trade and commerce are the financial lifelines for nearly all nation states. However, free and open borders designed to facilitate legitimate trade and commerce create significant vulnerabilities that can be exploited by transnational organized criminal organizations that are looking to trade illicit goods, or licit goods illicitly. The transnational organized crime phenomenon is not a new problem, but it is becoming ever more challenging in an ever more connected world. Globalization is rapidly accelerating. This rapid acceleration is creating new challenges regarding border security. Transnational criminal organizations exploit weaknesses in border security to facilitate crimes such as narcotics smuggling, weapons proliferation, illicit wildlife smuggling, natural resource and pharmaceutical trade, cybercrime, money laundering, human trafficking and human smuggling. This results in a significant portion of the global domestic product being lost to criminal elements and out of the hands of legitimate businesses and nations. Globalization is also creating the need for new and stronger partnerships between many different stakeholders. In the past, it was rarely necessary for government, private and civil organizations to collaborate towards common goals. Information rarely had to be shared except when required in the course of doing business. Now it is not only common, but a must to maximize resources and efficiencies. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, highlighted the need to tear down the operational stovepipes that existed between government agencies. Over seventeen years later, that goal has largely been accomplished. Now that need must evolve to include the business and private sectors as well. The complexity that globalization has added to border security has simply become too complex to be solved in traditional organizational ways. Traditional silos between governments and all relevant stakeholder organizations must be broken to combat transnational organized crime and improve border security in an ever-evolving and globalized world."--Page 1-2.