TY  - GEN
T1  - The Arab world and Western intelligence : analysing the Middle East, 1956-1981
T2  - Intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare.
A1  - Rezk, Dina
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1002303863
AB  - 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.
OP  - 361
CN  - DS63.1 .R49 2017eb
SN  - 9780748698929
SN  - 0748698922
SN  - 9780748698912
SN  - 0748698914
KW  - Middle East : History : 20th century.
KW  - Middle East : Politics and government : History : 20th century.
KW  - Intelligence service : Western countries.
KW  - Middle East : Foreign relations : Western countries.
KW  - Western countries : Foreign relations : Middle East.
KW  - Moyen-Orient : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Moyen-Orient : Politique et gouvernement : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Service des renseignements : Occident.
KW  - Moyen-Orient : Relations extérieures : Occident.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Government : International.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : International Relations : General.
KW  - HISTORY : Middle East : General.
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Intelligence service
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Western countries
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -