abstract: The reform of intelligence and state security services in the 'new' democracies that emerged since the end of the Cold War has remained under-documented and under-analyzed for a long time.This is especially true for smaller countries.Whereas this fact certainly can be explained with the sensitive nature of the business, the lack of data resulted in important lacunae for understanding these services, and obviously also for lessons to be drawn from the transformation processes.This special issue o
journal: Connections The Quarterly Journal