Spotlights

  • (Re)thinking women from their role in intelligence: an approach to the dynamics that integrate women in glocal security and defense spaces.

    (Re)thinking women from their role in intelligence: an approach to the dynamics that integrate women in glocal security and defense spaces.

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    This book is an academic effort to promote new approaches to the role of women in national intelligence, security and defense scenarios. This is based on the premise that their participation has been subject to rigid, inaccessible and masculinized contexts given the socio-historical conditions at local and international (glocal) levels. Each chapter explores the role of women's voices based on the (re)interpretation of the stereotypes that have been created around their recognition, contributions in different fields of study and characterization of their abilities. In the same way, it...

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  • Strategic communications (STRATCOM) and social media: their applicability for the post-Wesphalian world.

    Comunicaciones estratégicas (STRATCOM) y social media: su aplicabilidad para el mundo postwesfaliano

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    This book presents the importance of Strategic Communications (STRATCOM) and social media to generate ties of legitimacy, trust, credibility, recognition, reputation, good image and support with civil society or strategic actors. Mainly, in hybrid contexts characterized by an asymmetry that makes it difficult to understand phenomena, and where there is a common language that states that the central objective of each actor in changing and virtualized scenarios is: to persuade others to impose an agenda of interests. Battlefields in the post-Wesphalian era are not composed of physical...

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  • Power building: a threat to national security

    Construcción de poder: una amenaza a la seguridad nacional

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    This book identifies the different strategies implemented by the criminal structure of the National Liberation Army (ELN); in a clear and specific manner, the work covers a good part of the genesis of this criminal structure and details how they have incubated in the different fields of society. This is a purely academic work and includes different hypotheses of authors that give argumentative ground to what is presented in the work.

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The purpose of the Aquila Harpyia Publishing Label of the College of Intelligence and Counterintelligence "BG. Ricardo Charry Solano" (ESICI) is focused on disseminating for the benefit of the national and international academic community, the research, artistic and cultural production of teaching and research areas in different fields of knowledge in intelligence, security, defense and social sciences among others, as well as literary works of new national and international writers.