What are the non-traditional security threats?

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

What are the non-traditional security threats?

Background and causes of non-traditional security threats: the long-term injustice of the international political order has triggered more contradictions and crises. The long-term imbalance of world economic development has caused more unsafe factors.

The long-term disharmony between human development and natural environment has led to more environmental safety problems. The rapid development of international exchanges does not match the construction of international crisis prevention mechanism.

The main characteristics of non-traditional security threats are transnational, uncertain, sudden, transformational, dynamic, autonomous and cooperative.