There are many potential challenges to the integrity of the State. These include the use of conventional or unconventional forces to destabilize a government, annex resources or impose regime or policy change. They also include a range of threats to economic, institutional and social structures, such as:

• Trafficking in people, weapons and illegal narcotics.
• Money laundering and tax evasion.
• The misappropriation of public funds.
• Attempts to pervert the course of justice.
• The compromising of democracy and the political process by threats, violence and corruption.
• The penetration of government agencies by organized crime.
• High levels of migration (especially of skilled people) as a result of a lack of security and economic opportunity.