265 Miguel Ángel Ballesteros Martín Introduction JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee Miguel Ángel Ballesteros Martín Brigadier Director of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies. INTRODUCTION With the presentation of this new issue of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies Magazine, we are taking a step further toward the consolidation of this publication in the field of Security and Defense, which, since it was first published in December of 2015, has never failed its readers by missing publication every six months. It is a publication that aspires to become a considerable influence for analysts, professors, and scholars of these subjects in Spain and Latin America. At the same time, like all Spanish-English bilingual publications, it intends to open its path in the complex and vast world of publications with scientific impact in the Anglo-Saxon world. In this issue, there has been a renewal of members in the Editorial Board as well as its Editorial Staff. We wish to thank the outgoing collaborators and welcome the new ones. On the other hand, furthering the continuous improvement process to the quality of this magazine, in this issue we have included a list of the evaluators who have cooperated in selecting the articles published in the last three issues. Thanks to the evaluation system by the method of “double blind peer review”, we ensure a standard criteria of objectivity, and we guarantee that the “reviewers” have been selected keeping in mind their proven competence in scientific methodology and their solid knowledge of the subjects or contents of the documents. The goal of this publication is to attain an optimal interest in impact rates. Several matters are discussed in this issue. In the first article, a new method for the analysis of geopolitical regions (MARG is its acronym in Spanish: Método para el Análisis de Regiones Geopolíticas) is introduced, as it has been successfully experienced by the author in the Advanced School for the Armed Forces in Spain. The method allows intervention with civil capabilities and, if necessary, military capabilities to restore regional stability. This is an important issue, if we consider the rapid evolution of risks and threats.
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