The Arab World and Western Intelligence
Analysing the Middle East, 1956-1981
Seiten
2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-9891-2 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-9891-2 (ISBN)
Have Western intelligence experts fundamentally failed to understand the dynamics, leaders and culture of the Middle East? Using the most recently declassified documents, interviews and Arabic sources, the book examines seminal case studies to explore how the intelligence agencies in the world have been so notoriously caught off-guard.
This book addresses a critical question embedded within a heated debate about American intelligence after 9/11: have Western experts failed in some fundamental way to understand the dynamics, leaders and culture of the Middle East?
Using the most recently declassified documents, interviews and Arabic sources, the book examines seminal case studies culminating in Sadat’s dramatic assassination and explores how the most knowledgeable and powerful intelligence agencies in the world have been so notoriously caught off guard in this region.
This book addresses a critical question embedded within a heated debate about American intelligence after 9/11: have Western experts failed in some fundamental way to understand the dynamics, leaders and culture of the Middle East?
Using the most recently declassified documents, interviews and Arabic sources, the book examines seminal case studies culminating in Sadat’s dramatic assassination and explores how the most knowledgeable and powerful intelligence agencies in the world have been so notoriously caught off guard in this region.
Dina Rezk is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Reading. She received her Ph.D from the University of Cambridge in 2013, where she also completed her undergraduate degree, and subsequently spent two years at the Politics Department in Warwick University in September as a Teaching Fellow in Intelligence and Security.
Introduction
Orientalism and Analysis
Formation of the United Arab Republic
Revolution in Iraq
Syrian Secession
Yemeni Civil War
The Six-Day War
The War of Attrition
First Impressions of Sadat
The Yom Kippur War
The Aftermath of Victory
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7486-9891-4 / 0748698914 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7486-9891-2 / 9780748698912 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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