This book analyzes how the Egyptian intelligence community has
adapted to shifting national security threats since its inception
100 years ago.
Starting in 1910, when the modern Egyptian intelligence system
was created to deal with militant nationalists and Islamists, the
book shows how the security services were subsequently reorganized,
augmented and centralized to meet an increasingly sophisticated
array of challenges, including fascism, communism, army unrest,
Israel, France, the United Kingdom, conservative Arab states, the
Muslim Brotherhood and others.
The book argues that studying Egypt's intelligence community is
integral to our understanding of that country's modern history,
regime stability and human rights record. Intelligence studies have
been described as the ?missing dimension? of international
relations. It is clear that intelligence agencies are pivotal to
understanding the nature of many Arab regimes and their
decision-making processes, and there is no published history of
modern Egyptian intelligence in either a European language or in
Arabic, though Egypt has the largest and arguably most effective
intelligence community in the Arab world.
This book will fill a clear gap in the intelligence literature
and will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies,
Middle Eastern politics, international security and IR in
general.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!