Tanulmányozzuk-e James Bondot? Politikatudomány és titkosszolgálat
Should we study James Bond? Intelligence and political science

Summary/Abstract: In the 2007 /4 issue of Politikatudományi Szemle Béla Révész disapprovingly claims that political science has ignored studying the intelligence services. The current article – while accepting this remark – seeks to answer some questions raised by Révész, and surveys the results of the so-called intelligence studies research field that has been established in the U SA and the U K. First, the article reviews the debates concerning the concept of intelligence. Second, the changing relationship between intelligence and politics throughout the past century will be outlined and the significance of the intelligence process for political science as well as the politicization of intelligence will be introduced. Third, the problematic relationship between democracy and intelligence and the possible regulation and control of intelligence services will be also introduced.

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