Rene Arcos
Biographic Data
| ID | 1139986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rene Arcos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rene |
| FAMILY NAME | Arcos |
| SIGNATURE | ARCOS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9665-5874 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Developing Professional Competence Frameworks for European National Security Intelligence Practitioners
This article examines existing European and global competence frameworks to assess their suitability for security and intelligence professionals and reviews the frameworks employed by several education programs across Europe that train future intelligence experts. Focusing on regulatory standards and academic curricula, the study provides a clear assessment of current competence regulation, identifying gaps and misalignments while highlighting ar…
Rethinking education and training to counter AI-enhanced disinformation and information manipulations in Europe
The rise of AI-driven technologies has created new avenues for disinformation and poses a significant security threat. This study uses the Delphi method to analyse the emerging training needs and skills required to combat AI-driven disinformation. The experts emphasise that the public’s and policy makers’ understanding of AI-driven disinformation is still very fragmentary. They highlight the need for improved digital competences and skills, updat…
When spies go public! Lessons learnt from the instrumentalization of intelligence for strategic communication in the run-up to the Russian-Ukrainian war
Timely warning to policy-makers and the general public about the planned Russian invasion of Ukraine is hailed as an intelligence and strategic communication success. It has resulted in increased confidence in US and UK intelligence services and in revigorated involvement in strategic communication in security and defence. Decision-makers at all levels seem to have understood that employing intelligence in strategic communication in a timely and …
Intelligence Education and the European Union’s External Action
The European Union (EU), as an international actor, has developed an anticipatory system encompassing different structures and intelligence capabilities that inform its decisionmaking process on foreign and security policy and external action through transnational European intelligence. This European intelligence system constitutes an important part of European integration, specialized and complex enough for requiring the provision of knowledge a…
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework
Non-state actors conducting terrorist attacks have shown to also rely on a mosaic of tactics to advance their strategic agendas, such as misusing educational curricula, infiltrating political institutions, and providing welfare, among others. Nevertheless, when analyzing their modus operandi, the attention has focused on violent and illegal tactics, to the detriment of non-violent and legal tactics. In light of this, and inspired by the literatur…
Diversity in Intelligence
With the advent of new technologies and the accelerated changes in the security arena, it has become apparent that intelligence organizations need to develop learning, self-reflective, and competitive working environments and communities of practice with a distinct set of values and norms that may go beyond the cultural values and practices of the twentieth century. One of the values that needs to be further explored and integrated is diversity. …
Digital Communication and Hybrid Threats
La amenaza híbrida es un concepto que aparece en documentos oficiales y estrategias de seguridad de los estados. Tanto la UE como la OTAN han tomado medidas serias para contrarrestar la actividad relacionada con las amenazas híbridas. Este monográfico sobre comunicación digital y amenazas híbridas tiene como objetivo avanzar en la comprensión de cómo los actores de amenazas híbridas utilizan y pueden potencialmente explotar el entorno de la infor…
A whole of society intelligence approach
The aim of this paper is to critically reflect on why scholars need to reevaluate the definition of intelligence practices in the 21st century. Our assessment starts with digital communication advancements and their progressive appropriation by power agents to the benefit of propaganda, disinformation, and political manipulation. While analyzing the very nature of intelligence as being ‘institutionally’ and ‘nationally’ constructed, the paper adv…
Introduction to the special section on infodemiology and infodemics management
A Framework for Understanding the Strategies of Openness of the Intelligence Services
The relationship of the intelligence services with openness has been elusive and erratic, changing at the path of the scandals that shaked politics and public opinion. At different rhythms and marked by their national contexts, different intelligence services have embarked over the last two decades in different initiatives to promote societal awareness and a better understanding among society on the intelligence function. In this paper, a theoret…
Academics as Strategic Stakeholders of Intelligence Organizations
The political changes occurring since the end of the Cold War have led to a rethinking of the structures and procedures of national intelligence systems. Policies of openness and interaction regard
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework
Non-state actors conducting terrorist attacks have shown to also rely on a mosaic of tactics to advance their strategic agendas, such as misusing educational curricula, infiltrating political institutions, and providing welfare, among others. Nevertheless, when analyzing their modus operandi, the attention has focused on violent and illegal tactics, to the detriment of non-violent and legal tactics. In light of this, and inspired by the literatur…
Academics as Strategic Stakeholders of Intelligence Organizations
The political changes occurring since the end of the Cold War have led to a rethinking of the structures and procedures of national intelligence systems. Policies of openness and interaction regard
Digital Communication and Hybrid Threats
La amenaza híbrida es un concepto que aparece en documentos oficiales y estrategias de seguridad de los estados. Tanto la UE como la OTAN han tomado medidas serias para contrarrestar la actividad relacionada con las amenazas híbridas. Este monográfico sobre comunicación digital y amenazas híbridas tiene como objetivo avanzar en la comprensión de cómo los actores de amenazas híbridas utilizan y pueden potencialmente explotar el entorno de la infor…
A whole of society intelligence approach
The aim of this paper is to critically reflect on why scholars need to reevaluate the definition of intelligence practices in the 21st century. Our assessment starts with digital communication advancements and their progressive appropriation by power agents to the benefit of propaganda, disinformation, and political manipulation. While analyzing the very nature of intelligence as being ‘institutionally’ and ‘nationally’ constructed, the paper adv…
Introduction to the special section on infodemiology and infodemics management
A Framework for Understanding the Strategies of Openness of the Intelligence Services
The relationship of the intelligence services with openness has been elusive and erratic, changing at the path of the scandals that shaked politics and public opinion. At different rhythms and marked by their national contexts, different intelligence services have embarked over the last two decades in different initiatives to promote societal awareness and a better understanding among society on the intelligence function. In this paper, a theoret…
Diversity in Intelligence
With the advent of new technologies and the accelerated changes in the security arena, it has become apparent that intelligence organizations need to develop learning, self-reflective, and competitive working environments and communities of practice with a distinct set of values and norms that may go beyond the cultural values and practices of the twentieth century. One of the values that needs to be further explored and integrated is diversity. …
Rethinking education and training to counter AI-enhanced disinformation and information manipulations in Europe
The rise of AI-driven technologies has created new avenues for disinformation and poses a significant security threat. This study uses the Delphi method to analyse the emerging training needs and skills required to combat AI-driven disinformation. The experts emphasise that the public’s and policy makers’ understanding of AI-driven disinformation is still very fragmentary. They highlight the need for improved digital competences and skills, updat…
When spies go public! Lessons learnt from the instrumentalization of intelligence for strategic communication in the run-up to the Russian-Ukrainian war
Timely warning to policy-makers and the general public about the planned Russian invasion of Ukraine is hailed as an intelligence and strategic communication success. It has resulted in increased confidence in US and UK intelligence services and in revigorated involvement in strategic communication in security and defence. Decision-makers at all levels seem to have understood that employing intelligence in strategic communication in a timely and …
Intelligence Education and the European Union’s External Action
The European Union (EU), as an international actor, has developed an anticipatory system encompassing different structures and intelligence capabilities that inform its decisionmaking process on foreign and security policy and external action through transnational European intelligence. This European intelligence system constitutes an important part of European integration, specialized and complex enough for requiring the provision of knowledge a…
The Coercion-Manipulation-Persuasion Framework
Non-state actors conducting terrorist attacks have shown to also rely on a mosaic of tactics to advance their strategic agendas, such as misusing educational curricula, infiltrating political institutions, and providing welfare, among others. Nevertheless, when analyzing their modus operandi, the attention has focused on violent and illegal tactics, to the detriment of non-violent and legal tactics. In light of this, and inspired by the literatur…
Developing Professional Competence Frameworks for European National Security Intelligence Practitioners
This article examines existing European and global competence frameworks to assess their suitability for security and intelligence professionals and reviews the frameworks employed by several education programs across Europe that train future intelligence experts. Focusing on regulatory standards and academic curricula, the study provides a clear assessment of current competence regulation, identifying gaps and misalignments while highlighting ar…
Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Intelligence analysis (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Business Intelligence (2 works)