{"product_id":"covert-colour-line","title":"COVERT COLOUR LINE","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOVERT COLOUR LINE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClassification:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: KEARNS, OLIVER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: PLUTO PRESS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780745347301\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"headline\"\u003ePublisher's Synopsis\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003csection\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRepeated intelligence failures in Iraq, Libya and across the Middle East and North Africa have left many critics searching for a smoking gun. Amidst questions of who misread - or manipulated - the intel, a fundamental truth goes unaddressed: western intelligence is not designed to understand the world. In fact, it cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Covert Colour Line\u003c\/em\u003e, Oliver Kearns shows how the catastrophic mistakes made by British and US intelligence services since 9\/11 are underpinned by orientalist worldviews and racist assumptions forged in the crucible of Cold War-era colonial retreat. Understanding this historical context is vital to explaining why anglophone state intelligence is unable to grasp the motives and international solidarities of 'adversaries'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a new way of seeing how intelligence contributes to world inequalities, and drawing on a wealth of recently declassified materials, Kearns argues that intelligence agencies' imagination of 'non-Western' states and geopolitics fundamentally shaped British intelligence assessments which would underpin the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent interventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"PLUTO PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40335362949218,"sku":"9780745347301","price":410.53,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1279\/5591\/files\/9780745347301.jpg?v=1683281549","url":"https:\/\/elexacademicbookstore.co.za\/products\/covert-colour-line","provider":"Elex Academic Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}