| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 戰略暨國際事務研究所 === 99 === The trend of globalization in the Post Cold War period has highlighted cross-border cooperation not only on economy but also on organizational crimes. Crimes are easily flourished under the cover of economic prosperity. Due to excessive profits at low costs, international crime organizations like to play for high stakes on drug smuggling. Drug smuggling is not only serious between the United States, the major consumer of illicit drugs, and its Central and South American neighbors but worldwide. With its rapidly rising economy and regional tie with the Golden Triangle, China is now believed to be the main transit point for heroin from Myanmar to the United States. Large amounts of methamphetamines produced in Myanmar are also smuggled worldwide through China these days. Affected by the trend of globalization, Taiwan is also considered a transit point for drugs affecting the United States due to its geographic location relative to China and its role as a regional transportation and shipping hub. Under the circumstances, striking on drug smuggling is now raising the mutual concerns of political entities between the Taiwan Strait.
The signing of the "Agreement on Joint Cross-Strait Crime-fighting and Mutual Judicial Assistance" between the Straits on April 26, 2009, establishes an institutionalized cooperation platform for joint cross-strait crime prevention to safeguard the exchange order and the people’s intersts for both sides, which sets a new milestone after the signing of Quemoy Agreement in 1990.
The performance of drug-fighting cooperation relies on the true willingness of the law enforcement organizations between the Straits to cooperate, which may also be affected by the development of the relationships between the both sides. This paper explores cross-border cooperation and its patterns through analytical framework in terms of decision making level, social interaction level and international system level. Based on international relations theory, this paper tries to provide feasible packages for the judicial parties between the Straits through analysing current judicial interaction for future reciprocity.
Keywords: globalization, cross-border cooperation, drug smuggling, judicial cooperation, level-of-analysis
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