Intelligence Services, an Integral Part of States in Transition
Intelligence Services, an Integral Part of States in Transition

Summary/Abstract: This article contains several reflections on the intelligence service as a system in itself, but also as an inseparable part of the state and a factor of its statehood. In the processing of this work, domestic experiences were treated, as well as opportunities in neighboring countries and beyond. Treating “service” as a part of the political system and especially studying it in a scientific sense is relatively recent. In the past (France - Fouchet; Soviet Union - Beria et al. ed.) the “service” was not only mystified, but often slandered, and not infrequently there was political reckoning with the heads of certain intelligence services. The basis for such a scientific and qualified approach to the “services” and analyzing their work, but also leaving it for “public inspection”, as far as possible, was made possible by the current resources of the political organization of each state in particular, as well as the legal and social regulations within each States. After the collapse of the “Warsaw Pact” in Yugoslavia, more precisely in the states created by its dissolution, the name of the service SDB, RDB - no longer made sense, that is, it carried with it a series of hidden digressions and even dangers. In order to prevent this from happening and to explain primitive and malicious remarks, the services were given professional and neutral names and one could always say: “We are a service of the state.” Here is the information for you as external users, so do what you want with them”! Towards the end of the twentieth century, as a result of radical geostrategic changes, which implied many transformations of security systems throughout the planet Earth, there was also a “repackaging” of the meaning of the term security. Essentially, important changes related to the security sector are happening in several directions - on the global level, in the countries of the region/surroundings and in the areas of our former state.

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