Analyzing the World Today: Intelligence, Disinformation, and Power in the 21st Century
The Master in Global & International Studies (MGIS) welcomes Professor Fulton T. Armstrong, member of the MGIS faculty, for a public lecture in Salamanca examining how intelligence, disinformation, and power shape decision-making in today’s international system.
In an era where information moves faster than verification, Armstrong examines a critical question: how does intelligence actually influence power when facts, narratives, and manipulation collide?
Drawing on more than three decades of experience spanning journalism, intelligence analysis, and policy advising—including senior roles at the U.S. National Security Council and the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee—Armstrong will unpack how intelligence is produced, filtered, distorted, and ultimately used in real-world decision-making. Not as theory, but as practiced inside institutions where the stakes are geopolitical, economic, and human.
Delivered in Spanish, the lecture opens the MGIS academic program to the wider public and invites a rigorous reflection on one of the defining challenges of our time: separating signal from noise in an age of permanent information overload, strategic deception, and contested truth.
📍 Biblioteca Pública de Salamanca · Casa de las Conchas > Find it in Google Maps
🕖 19:00 · Open access until capacity is reached
