{"product_id":"the-covert-color-line-the-radicalized-politics-of-western-state-intelligence-9780745347301","title":"The Covert Color Line: The Radicalized Politics of Western State Intelligence","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Oliver Kearns\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Espionage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if the biggest failures of intelligence are not the factual errors, but the inbuilt biases that shape what type of information is deemed useful?'\u003c\/b\u003e--Lisa Stampnitzky, author of \u003ci\u003eDisciplining Terror\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ground-breaking ... Decodes declassified documents showing the racialized assumptions underlying the use and abuse of intelligence in contemporary Western politics. A must-read'--\u003c\/b\u003eElisabeth Schweiger, Lecturer, University of York \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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'--\u003c\/b\u003eGargi Bhattacharyya, co-author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire's Endgame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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, a fundamental truth goes unaddressed: Western intelligence is not designed to understand the world. In fact, it cannot. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Covert Colour Line\u003c\/i\u003e, Oliver Kearns shows how catastrophic mistakes made by British and US intelligence services since 9\/11 are underpinned by racist assumptions forged in the crucible of the Cold War-era colonial retreat. Understanding this historical context is vital to explaining why anglophone state intelligence cannot grasp the motives of 'adversaries.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Offering a new way of seeing how intelligence contributes to world inequalities and drawing on a wealth of recently declassified materials, Kearns argues that delusional ideas of 'the non-West' fundamentally shaped the intelligence assessments underpinning the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent interventions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOliver Kearns\u003c\/b\u003e is a research fellow with SPIN, the Secrecy Power and Ignorance Network, at the University of Bristol. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45033184493719,"sku":"9780745347301","price":2144.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780745347301.webp?v=1769209158","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-covert-color-line-the-radicalized-politics-of-western-state-intelligence-9780745347301","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}