And… they are winning!!
When the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) was adopted in 2000 total profits of Transnational Organized crime where estimated to be about US 10 Billion. By 2010 the income flow had jumped to 90 Billion. Today it is one trillion. In short, TOC is winning given the lack of political will among nation states to coalesce around this threat to fully apply national and international tools created to deal with the challenge. The retrench of most nations from multilateralism into quasi feudal foreign policies will be the best insurance policy for TOC to prosper this century.