Transnational Crimes And International Police Cooperation In The Era Of Globalization

This paper tries to explore a special branch of International Relations, namely international police cooperation. Employing a cross-national methodology, the study offers a systematic and practical analysis of international police cooperation, touching on the framework of international judicial cooperation in criminal matters. The author also observes China's cooperative relations with other countries worldwide in policing as well as in other law enforcement efforts and provides several pieces of advice for the country to make further improvement in this area. Ever since the end of the Cold War, the growing tide of globalization has turned the entire world into a global village, in which all nations are closely linked with each other and interdependent, and smoothed the way for transnational crimes. As a result, almost all sovereign states today are confronted with the threats posed by transnational crimes, especially such crimes as organized crimes, terrorist activities, money laundering, drug trafficking, illegal arms trafficking, aliens smuggling and cyber crimes. To tackle these problems, the international community has been continuously strengthening relevant judicial cooperation, drafting conventions, signing multilateral and bilateral treaties and developing more measures and channels for international police cooperation. Chinese police departments have begun to cooperate with their foreign counterparts only recently. Although great progress has been made, they still face a lot of problems and difficulties. The government, all relating departments included, needs to make a long-term effort removing obstacles and developing a better operating mechanism so as to cooperate more extensively and intimately with other nations.