Secret services and the national interest in Romanian interwar period

The European context after the end of the First World War forced Romania to rethink its national security architecture. Romania reacted than and continues to react to preserve the national interest in relation with the countries of the region. To insure the country’s security and national integrity, Romanian diplomacy was active in building a system of treaties with the neighbouring states, in an attempt to put in place a security mechanism for regional security. Consequently, the Romanian Secret Service (SSI) played a key role in the prevention and countering of revisionist actions and domestic risk factors. The research focuses on the interwar period Romanian official position toward the risk factors issue. This study provide an analysis on the interrelated domain of action of the interwar Romanian intelligence and diplomacy, in order to generate a corpus of knowledge, essential for the intelligence field, known under the generic title of „lessons learned†.