Transnational threat

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In the context of international relations, a transnational threat is an actual or potential conflict or pattern of action, which crosses national borders, but is not based on a conflict between nation-states. Examples include non-state terrorism, the international drug trade and piracy.

The threat may be made from groups operating in weak or failed states, or by groups given sanctuary, or at least not effectively suppressed, in functioning nations.