209 JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES Miguel Ángel Ballesteros Martín Brigadier Director of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies INTRODUCTION TO ISSUE 8 OF THE IEEE JOURNAL We present the 8th issue of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies Maga-zine, continuing our policy of uniting quality and rigor with the publica-tion of articles of interest to the public and fully topical. The first article in this issue was written by Chema Suarez Serrano, PhD in In-ternational Public Law, and a journalist for Radio Televisión Andalucía (Andalusian Radio and Television). In his article, he describes how the so-called war journalism is changing, just as contemporary armed conflicts do. The communication technologies make available an unparalleled dissemination and influence on the public opinion as well as on international organizations, thus having a direct consequence: the concu-rrent increase of threats against the safety of those who inform. Luis Miguel Sordo Estella, Infantry Colonel, with a degree in Psychology and a PhD in International Peace and Security by the UNED (Spanish National University of Distance Education), analyzes, in the second article, the psychology of terrorism. The violent conduct of a terrorist does not reflect a mental disorder per se, but is rather a consequence of a process of socialization that affects the mind and the behavior. A terrorist is not a psychopath, and the psychological consequences that terror from these groups cause to their victims, and to the population that suffer them, has long persistence in most cases. The third article addresses a proposal of conceptual analysis of the security and defense culture from the standpoint of Political Science. The author is Alberto Bueno, doctoral candidate at the University of Granada, and member of the Study Group on International Security. He studies the significant implications and consequences of de-fining that concept, also considering the meaning of the terms defense culture, security and defense culture, and security culture, also contributing theoretical and conceptual suggestions for a better and more efficient development of this public policy. http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee
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