The Arab World and Western Intelligence

Analysing the Middle East, 1956-1981
Herausgeber: Rezk, Dina

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 theintelligence agencies in the world have been so notoriously caught off-guard.

Produktdetails

• Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781474444408
• ISBN-10: 1474444407
• Artikelnr.: 53021960

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Orientalism and Analysis
2. Formation of the United Arab Republic
3. Revolution in Iraq
4. Syrian Secession
5. Yemeni Civil War
6. The Six-Day War
7. The War of Attrition
8. First Impressions of Sadat
9. The Yom Kippur War
10. The Aftermath of Victory
Conclusion.