Resumen de Editorial of The International Journal of Intelligence, Security, and Public Affairs
This journal is not coming out of nowhere; it represents a degree of maturity reached by a project that started 10 years ago in Spain, a country with no tradition in the intelligence discipline. However, the situation of Spanish society, in which academia represents a fundamental role, demands to lift the veil off these issues and generate some thought and debate. Since then, we have been an open space for a diversity of perspectives and visions. Without forgetting our own Latin and European background, we approached this through dialogue and collaboration with the other side of the Atlantic. This journal represents the fruits of such efforts.
Nowadays, nobody doubts the unprecedented importance that information has acquired in our lives. The dependence on gathering and having information is such that it spans from the most trivial things, like entertainment, weather, traffic, etc., to the situation of the economy, international relations, politics, or public affairs. This makes responsibility for the quality of information authored and how it is interpreted absolutely crucial.
In our current world, most of the time, everything comes to us “cut,” “canned,” and ready to be consumed. Not only do we not know sometimes what we see, but we don’t understand it either. Furthermore, we are getting used to not asking, not being curious, not wanting to search and find out how things are or why they happen the way they do. In short, we are getting used to being okay with a lack of knowledge.
