Imbalance in international security in light of emerging threats: (illegal immigration and epidemics as a model)

Abstract

The current international era is an era of the emergence of new and unprecedented dangers and challenges due to their abundance, multiplicity of sources, overlapping causes and difficulty in dealing with them or separating them from each other, including - for example - problems resulting from environmental degradation and imbalance, climate changes, pollution, desertification, drought, depletion of natural resources, exacerbation of water crises and population increases. Excessive and insufficient available food resources, and all of this destructive environmental impacts on the conditions of human life in large areas of the world, in addition to the spread of epidemics and mysterious deadly viruses across borders such as (Covid-19) And other things that may arise from them in the future, and the expansion and exacerbation of the dangers of international terrorism, organized crime, the phenomenon of human trafficking, international drug trade, and the spread of armed civil wars that in many cases lead to the failure of governments and the toppling of states and spreading chaos and instability in them, and to the multiplicity of emerging sources of threat that have created An imbalance in the international security balance, the research will be limited to focusing on two variables only: illegal immigration, and epidemics, specifically (Covid-19).

The importance of research, as a renewed and emerging topic on the international scene, in light of the results of international developments within the framework of understanding and realizing the change in the concept of security because of its scientific and practical importance, and this is what we are trying to answer by posing the following problem: To what extent did the emerging patterns contribute to threats In the imbalance of global security? For this purpose, the researcher followed a complex methodology by using the systems analysis approach and the case study approach, and to achieve the scientific and practical objectives of the research, it was divided into three axes. The first axis included the development of the concept of security, and the identification of the most important emerging threats to security. Illegal immigration, while the third axis dealt with emerging epidemics and their impact on global health security disruption.