The Arab world and Western intelligence : analysing the Middle East, 1956-1981 /

The untold story of Western intelligence in the Middle East. Have Western 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 culminating...

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Egile nagusia: Rezk, Dina (Egilea)
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2017]
Saila:Intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1pwt2n5
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Gaia:The untold story of Western intelligence in the Middle East. Have Western 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 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.
Deskribapen fisikoa:1 online resource (361 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-347) and index.
ISBN:9780748698929
0748698922
9780748698912
0748698914