What are the non-traditional security threats?

Non-traditional security threats include: economic security, financial security, ecological environment security, information security, resource security, terrorism, weapons proliferation, disease spread, transnational crime, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, piracy, money laundering and so on.

Non-traditional security threats mainly refer to security problems in other fields caused by non-military and political conflicts. These problems have never been encountered or rarely seen by human society in the past, and have gradually emerged in recent years, and interacted with one or more other countries outside the battlefield, which can pose a major threat to the survival and development of their own and other countries, as well as the region and the world.

Non-traditional security threats are relative to traditional security threats, which refer to other factors that threaten the survival and development of sovereign countries and even all mankind except military, political and diplomatic conflicts.

At present, some countries still pursue hegemonism in international affairs and double standards in the fight against terrorism, proceeding from their own interests and seriously ignoring the interests of other countries and nations, which leads some vulnerable groups to take extreme measures to fight. The serious injustice of the international order may lead to terrorism and other consequences.

main feature

First of all, many non-traditional security threats are themselves "global problems", such as the destruction of the earth's ozone layer, the loss of biodiversity and the spread of serious infectious diseases. They are not a security threat to a country or group of countries, but are related to the overall interests of all mankind.

Secondly, many non-traditional security threats have obvious proliferation effects. For example, the financial crisis in East Asia and Latin America started in one country and eventually spread to the whole region. With its continuous spread, its harmfulness gradually accumulates and increases, resulting in a greater crisis. Third, many actors of non-traditional security threats are scattered in various countries in a "networked" way.