295 Miguel Ángel Ballesteros Martín Method for the analysis of geopolitical regions... probability that the government may be destabilized. 3) Government efficiency, which measures the quality of the public administration. 4) Regulatory quality, which measures the capability of the government to formulate and implement policies for the development of the public sector. 5) The Rule of Law, which measures the degree in which the government agents comply with the rules of the game. And lastly, 6) control of corruption.53 We could add many others to all these indicators or barometers.54 When carrying out the first part of the geopolitical analysis, the indicators that can contribute more and better information for the purpose of the study should be established, and they will be different in each case, or an indicator could be expressly designed to adapt to the needs of each case. Calduch proposed the index of Insecurity of National Politics (INP), establishing the methodological demands it must meet, differentiating among structural insecurity, current insecurity, and insecurity of the situation. The first two would relate to the analysis of the main study, while the third one, to the secondary study of the suggested method.55 Juan Diez Nicolás developed the Synthetic Index for Subjective Security (Índice Sintético de Seguridad Subjetiva-ISSS)56 which completes the indicator of General Security Perception (Percepción de Seguridad General-PSG), which is what an individual answers when asked about his feeling of security in the neighborhood and in the city where he lives. The ISSS is based on 15 variables and has strong relations with three indicators: residential security; problems in the neighborhood; and daily fears and worries. 5. COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF RISKS AND THREATS Through the MARG method for the analysis of stability/instability of geopolitical regions, we can detect the emergence of new risks or the variations of those previously identified. Starting from the identification of the new situation, the comparative evaluation of risks, through a diagram on a coordinate axis follows. 53 WORLD BANK. Indicators of world ingovernability 2013. Acquired October 25, 2014 at: http:// www.revistaperspectiva.com/archivos/revista/No%2031/042-043. 54 CALDUCH CERVERA, Rafael (2005). Application of Indicators in International Relations: Index of National Political Insecurity, Opus cit., pp. 50-59. 55 Ibídem, pp. 58-63. 56 DÍEZ NICOLÁS, Juan. Subjective Security in Spain; Construction of a Synthetic Index of Subjective Security. Ministry of Defense, Madrid, 2011, pp. 113-120. http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee
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