The Twilight of the British Empire : : British Intelligence and Counter-Subversion in the Middle East, 1948–63 / / Chikara Hashimoto.
Reveals Britain’s secret counter-subversive policies and security measures implemented in the post-war Middle EastThis book reveals, for the first time, a hitherto unexplored dimension of Britain’s engagement with the post-war Middle East: the counter-subversive policies and measures conducted by th...
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Hashimoto, Chikara, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Twilight of the British Empire : British Intelligence and Counter-Subversion in the Middle East, 1948–63 / Chikara Hashimoto. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2017 1 online resource (304 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare : ISSW Frontmatter -- Contents -- Two-Part Tribute Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Fighting the ‘Communist Menace’ Overseas -- 2 Security Training and Liaison in Anti-Communist Measures -- 3 The Defence of the Realm in the Middle East -- 4 Prerequisites of Intelligence Cooperation -- 5 Conflicting Interests in Anti-Communist Measures -- 6 The Use and Abuse of State Power and the Limits of British Influence -- Conclusion: The Twilight of the British Empire in the Middle East -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Security Intelligence Middle East Charter -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Reveals Britain’s secret counter-subversive policies and security measures implemented in the post-war Middle EastThis book reveals, for the first time, a hitherto unexplored dimension of Britain’s engagement with the post-war Middle East: the counter-subversive policies and measures conducted by the British Intelligence and Security Services and he Information Research Department (IRD) of the Foreign Office, Britain’s secret propaganda apparatus. Between 1948 and 1963, British policymakers used intelligence as a tool to maintain British influence in Middle Eastern countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran.Discover how Britain tried to influence regional intelligence and security services and shape their approach to countering communist subversion. However, amidst disagreements over the nature of the threat and levels of brutality used to counter it, intelligence and secret liasons ultimately failed to protect Britain’s waning influence.Key FeaturesReveals that Britain was instrumental in creating and training Middle Eastern security services, which often engaged in human rights abuses, and examines Britain’s complicity in these aspectsSheds new light on MI5’s activities overseas; MI5’s roles and activities were not only confined to the British Empire, but also areas outside the colonial territories in the Middle EastOffers an insight into intelligence liaison based on different political systems – the relationship between democratic (British Intelligence and Security Services) and non-democratic governments (their Middle Eastern counterparts) – and also another aspect of intelligence liaison as the means of influencing the policy of a foreign governmentBased on the thesis that won the BRISMES Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the Best PhD Dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic for 2014 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) Great Britain-Foreign relations-Middle East. Intelligence service-Great Britain-History-20th century. Intelligence service-Middle East-History-20th century. Middle East-Foreign relations-Great Britain. Politics. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110781403 print 9781474410458 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474410465 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474410465 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474410465/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Two-Part Tribute Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Fighting the ‘Communist Menace’ Overseas -- 2 Security Training and Liaison in Anti-Communist Measures -- 3 The Defence of the Realm in the Middle East -- 4 Prerequisites of Intelligence Cooperation -- 5 Conflicting Interests in Anti-Communist Measures -- 6 The Use and Abuse of State Power and the Limits of British Influence -- Conclusion: The Twilight of the British Empire in the Middle East -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Security Intelligence Middle East Charter -- Index |
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