The intelligence state in Tunisia : security and Mukhabarat, 1881-1965 / Omar Safi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Safi, Omar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service--Tunisia--History.

Intelligence service.

National security--Tunisia--History.

National security.

Tunisia--Military intelligence.

Tunisia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"For most Arab regimes, intelligence, security apparatus and the secret services, are central to their domestic politics. Yet despite this, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the relationship between intelligence and politics in any Arab state. This book examines how security apparatus and intelligence influenced the domestic politics of Tunisia, from the implementation of French Protectorate in 1881 to the aftermath of the independence up to 1965. Based on unprecedented access to the sources of the Ministry of Interior and the First Ministry during Bourguiba's regime, as well as the national, diplomatic and military archives of France, Italy and the United Kingdom, the book is the first to trace the evolution of the Tunisian security community. Omar Safi argues that from an apparatus designed to maintain colonial control, intelligence became an instrument to drive the political agendas of the ruling elite. The book sheds new light on the influence of intelligence, presenting it as the fundamental, and generally ignored, 'missing dimension' of North African domestic politics."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Beylical Intelligence State, 1705-1881

Chapter 2: French invasion and the implementationof the Protectorate, 1881-5

Chapter 3: The French Colonial Intelligence State, 1885-7

Chapter 4: The emergence of the Tunisian national movement, 1887-1939

Chapter 5: Towards the independence of Tunisia and the final failure of the French Colonial Intelligence State, 1939-54

Chapter 6: A paradoxical independence and the advent of the Bourguibist Intelligence State, 1954-6

Chapter 7: The implementation of the Bourguibist Intelligence State and the first failures, 1956-65

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Appendices

Chronology

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781838605742

1838605746

9781838605728

183860572X

OCLC:

1148893749