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The Arab World and Western Intelligence : Analysing the Middle East, 1956-1981 / Dina Rezk.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare : ISSWPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) : 12 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748698912
  • 9780748698929
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.5601821 23
LOC classification:
  • DS63.1 .R49 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Orientalism and Analysis: Ideas of the ‘Arab’ -- 2. Formation of the United Arab Republic -- 3. Revolution in Iraq -- 4. Syrian Secession -- 5. Civil War in Yemen -- 6. Six-Day War -- 7. War of Attrition -- 8. Early Years of Sadat’s Presidency -- 9. Yom Kippur War -- 10. Aftermath of Victory -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780748698929

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Orientalism and Analysis: Ideas of the ‘Arab’ -- 2. Formation of the United Arab Republic -- 3. Revolution in Iraq -- 4. Syrian Secession -- 5. Civil War in Yemen -- 6. Six-Day War -- 7. War of Attrition -- 8. Early Years of Sadat’s Presidency -- 9. Yom Kippur War -- 10. Aftermath of Victory -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)