Publications

 Data Sheet: María Cristina Rosas and Juan Guillermo Mendoza Bazán (Coordinators), Intelligence for security: myths and realities. The experience of Mexico, México, Center for Analysis and Research on Peace, Security and Development Olof Palme / National University of Australia / National Autonomous University of Mexico, 2021, 300 pp. ISBN: 978-607-745312-3. Foreword by Jorge Tello Peón.

The study on intelligence in Mexico is a subject rarely addressed in all areas, both academic and in public affairs. There are few specialists as well as few publications on the subject; unlike other countries, in Mexico, the intelligence services, created by presidential decree, have had different profiles, and impacts in the policies of each government. These services have enjoyed enormous discretion and lack of transparency and accountability, in addition to the fact that their purviews depend on the perception and interests that the current policymaker has over them. Likewise, in the legislative field there is ignorance and lack of authority in the matter. Another problem is that intelligence is often confused with espionage and is seen as an instrument at the service of the rulers, not society itself.

In this book, María Cristina Rosas and Juan Guillermo Mendoza Bazán, accompanied by renowned mexican experts on the subject -and a canadian- undertook the task to describe the role that intelligence services play in preserving national and public securities. They also review the fields of action that correspond to national security and public security, and how intelligence is an essential tool for both. Additionally, the state of the practice of intelligence in the world and in Mexico, and its relevance and use in democratic societies, is also analyzed.

The full understanding of the intelligence cycle and its importance for efficient decision-making is also a reason for reflection in this work. In today's world, intelligence is not only essential in the fields of security, since it constitutes and provide inside information useful for health, the economy, the environment, energy, agriculture, and food among other topics.

Therefore, ’Intelligence for Security: Myths and Facts – Mexico’s Experience’, is a unique work in the country, in which the reader will find elements for reflection and the necessary debate that is required around the problem of intelligence with a retrospective look, but also, and above all, from a nowadays perspective and prospective.

Contents:

Foreword.

Jorge Tello Peon

Presentation.

María Cristina Rosas and Juan Guillermo Mendoza Bazán

Intelligence Services in the 21st Century World: New Challenges.

Maria Cristina Rosas

Transparency and Democratization of Civilian Intelligence Services.

Juan Guillermo Mendoza Bazán

Intelligence Services as Articulators of National Strategy.

Leonardo Curzio

Uncertainty and the War on Crime.

Ricardo Marquez Blas

From Intelligence for Prevention to Peace Scenarios.

Severino Cartagena

International Intelligence Cooperation: The Mexican Experience.

Rolando Neri

Social Media Intelligence and Democracy

Cinzia Luna

Disinformation Operations: From an Intelligence Strategy to a National Security Threat.

Rodrigo Martínez Celis-Wogau

The ‘Business-Intelligence’ Model: From Security Departments to Resilience Units.

Juan Guillermo Mendoza Bazán

Development of Intelligence Capabilities for Security in the Private Sector.

Jorge E. Tello Luna

Economic Intelligence: a Pending Issue in Mexico

Jacobo Silva

The System was not on a ’Red Light’: Intelligence, Early Warning, and Risk Analysis in a Pandemic Emergency.

Wesley Wark

Epidemiological Intelligence: How to Prepare for the Upcoming Pandemics

Maria Cristina Rosas

Final Thoughts.

María Cristina Rosas and Juan Guillermo Mendoza Bazán.