The Arab World and Western intelligence: analysing the Middle East 1956-1981
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 57708
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9780748698912
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Using the most recently declassified documents, interviews and multi-archival research, this examination provided new evidence about the intelligence community’s performance in the post-war Middle East, revising conventional narratives of ‘intelligence failure.’ As well as consulting Arabic sources, this is the first book to take Western intelligence assessments back to the indigenous political elite who were the subjects of this analysis (e.g. President Nasser’s daughter, Hoda Abdel Nasser and Hassanein Heikal, Nasser’s closest confidante). These interviews with key Egyptian sources are unique features and bring an important and original dimension to the work. It constitutes genuinely multi-archival and multi-linguistic research.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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