The Covert Color Line: The Radicalized Politics of Western State Intelligence (Kearns Oliver)(Paperback) - diskuze

What if the biggest failures of intelligence are not the factual errors, but the inbuilt biases that shape what type of information is deemed useful?'--Lisa Stampnitzky, author of Disciplining Terror 'Ground-breaking ... Decodes declassified documents showing the racialized assumptions underlying the use and abuse of intelligence in contemporary Western politics. A must-read'--Elisabeth Schweiger, Lecturer, University of York 'Your jaw will drop and your heart will break. We urgently need this reckoning with the role of race-thinking in international politics. Lives depend on it'--Gargi Bhattacharyya, co-author of Empire's Endgame Repeated intelligence failures in Iraq, Libya, the Middle East, and North Africa have left many critics searching for a smoking gun. Amidst questions of who misread - or manipulated - the intel,
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