TY  - GEN
T1  - The Covert Colour Line : The Racialised Politics of Western State Intelligence
A1  - Kearns, Oliver
LA  - English
PP  - Las Vegas, NV
PB  - Pluto Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1376355879
AB  - Repeated intelligence failures in Iraq, Libya and across the Middle East and North Africa have left many critics searching for a smoking gun. Amidst questions of who misread - or manipulated - the intel, a fundamental truth goes unaddressed: western intelligence is not designed to understand the world. In fact, it cannot. In The Covert Colour Line, Oliver Kearns shows how the catastrophic mistakes made by British and US intelligence services since 9/11 are underpinned by orientalist worldviews and racist assumptions forged in the crucible of Cold War-era colonial retreat. Understanding this historical context is vital to explaining why anglophone state intelligence is unable to grasp the motives and international solidarities of 'adversaries'. Offering a new way of seeing how intelligence contributes to world inequalities, and drawing on a wealth of recently declassified materials, Kearns argues that intelligence agencies' imagination of 'non-Western' states and geopolitics fundamentally shaped British intelligence assessments which would underpin the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent interventions.
OP  - 272
CN  - JF1525.I6
SN  - 9780745347332
SN  - 0745347339
SN  - 9780745347325
SN  - 0745347320
SN  - 0745347304
SN  - 9780745347301
KW  - Intelligence service : Western countries.
KW  - Race : Political aspects.
KW  - Racism : Political aspects.
KW  - Western countries : Foreign relations.
KW  - Service des renseignements : Occident.
KW  - Race : Aspect politique.
KW  - Racisme : Aspect politique.
KW  - Occident : Relations extérieures.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE.
KW  - Military.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - International Relations.
KW  - Intelligence & Espionage.
KW  - Anarchism.
KW  - Political Ideologies.
KW  - Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
KW  - Imperialism.
KW  - Cultural.
KW  - Anthropology.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE.
KW  - Military Science.
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING.
KW  - Espionage.
KW  - TRUE CRIME.
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Intelligence service
KW  - Race : Political aspects
KW  - Racism : Political aspects
KW  - Western countries
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -