Sharing empire: Great Britain, Fascist Italy, and (anti-) colonial intelligence networks in the Palestine Mandate, 1933-1940

TY - JOUR

T1 - Sharing empire

T2 - Great Britain, Fascist Italy, and (anti-) colonial intelligence networks in the Palestine Mandate, 1933-1940

AU - Gilchrist, Jessi

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - This article contributes to the growing body of literature on colonial intelligence by examining the Palestine Mandate. Throughout the 1930s, Fascist Italy developed a network of local agents, informants, and inter- mediaries that reported on both local conditions and the British imperial administration. Yet the region was not a site of unrestrained imperial competition. Instead, I argue that the British and Italians transformed Palestine into a shared imperial space. Through colonial intelligence net- works, Fascist Italy built an essential imperial infrastructure in the Palestine Mandate that overlapped with the British administration and diverted a certain degree of authority to Rome.

AB - This article contributes to the growing body of literature on colonial intelligence by examining the Palestine Mandate. Throughout the 1930s, Fascist Italy developed a network of local agents, informants, and inter- mediaries that reported on both local conditions and the British imperial administration. Yet the region was not a site of unrestrained imperial competition. Instead, I argue that the British and Italians transformed Palestine into a shared imperial space. Through colonial intelligence net- works, Fascist Italy built an essential imperial infrastructure in the Palestine Mandate that overlapped with the British administration and diverted a certain degree of authority to Rome.

KW - British Empire

KW - Fascist Italy

KW - Colonial Intelligence

KW - Imperial Intelligence

KW - Yemen

KW - Aden

U2 - 10.1080/02684527.2022.2104507

DO - 10.1080/02684527.2022.2104507

M3 - Article

SN - 0268-4527

JO - Intelligence and National Security

JF - Intelligence and National Security

ER -