The United States has a bureaucratic and governance mechanism, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), for addressing issues like drug trafficking

Body of rules, treaties, and customary norms governing relations between sovereign states and other international actors. Provides the legal framework for diplomacy, armed conflict, trade, human rights, and the functioning of international institutions — enforced through courts, arbitration, and state compliance.

Transnational criminal networks and cartels, including their trafficking, financial and resource-extraction activities and international efforts to counter them.