Clive Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clive Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clive |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6319-2068 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 47 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Obscured by a Toxic Fog
This article examines Britain’s intelligence assessments and political response to Egypt’s use of chemical weapons during the Yemen Civil War (1962–1968), the first confirmed instance of such weapons being deployed by an Arab state. Drawing on British intelligence reporting, technical analyses from Porton Down, and diplomatic correspondence, it explores how evidence of chemical warfare—most notably following the January 1967 attack on the village…
Collision Course
This policy analysis asks: what has caused and now sustains the violent escalation cycle that is re‐defining the Middle East and how will this all end? It analyses Iran and Israel's grand strategies. It argues that both employ force to achieve strategic depth and both bifurcate the region into two blocs doomed to constantly fight for hegemony. Equally, they both share the same flaws. Israel and Iran alike prioritise conflict management over confl…
Israel and the Gulf monarchies
Hostages to Fortunes
Hostage-taking has become a distressing feature of international politics over the last two decades, associated either with terrorist groups or hostile state actors, such as Iran, willing to engage in hostage diplomacy for political and security advantage. By contrast, the incarceration of foreign nationals by friendly powers has received scant attention. This is the hidden dimension of hostage diplomacy. By examining the case of British national…
British Revival and American Decline? Anglo-American Relations and the Persian Gulf 1979–1987
Understanding the trajectory of Anglo-American relations in the Middle East in the latter half of the twentieth century has rarely enjoyed consensus. Some have characterised it as a period of perpetual competition, with London unwilling or unable to accept its diminished status. Others, post-Suez, are more sanguine. Britain, it is argued, acted as a tutor to the United States still struggling to configure its global power with its regional intere…
Death Tango
Anthropologists, Topographers, Diplomats, and Spies
Recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have reawakened interest as well as controversies over how Western militaries tried to engage, with varying degrees of success, with the ‘Human Terrain’. These debates are far from new. This article explores the role played by a handful of Royal Air Force Intelligence Officers across the Aden Protectorates in the 1950s. Undoubtedly, they enjoyed notable success, not least in countering the immediate territ…
Grand Strategy in the Contemporary Middle East
Getting the Better of the Bargain
This analysis explores the nature of Anglo-Israeli intelligence relations between 1967 and 1974, focusing in particular on how the legacy of the British mandate in Palestine, the influence of senior British diplomats, as well as wider commercial interests shaped attempts by intelligence officials on both sides to move this relationship beyond the purely functional. Whilst Israel looked to barter access to recently captured Soviet equipment for gr…
Fraternal Enemies
Relations between Israel and the Gulf states are not anything new. In the immediate aftermath of the 1993 Oslo Accords, both Qatar and Oman established low-level yet open diplomatic ties with Israel. In 2010, Ha'aretz reported that the former Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, was on friendly terms with Shaykh Abdullah bin Zayed, her counterpart from the UAE, despite the absence of formal diplomatic ties between the two states. The shared sus…
Moving off the Gold Standard
This article analyses the rationale behind the pursuit of nuclear energy by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, a rationale that is best understood by a particular construct of “stateness”. While the drive towards nuclear energy is justified by a growing demographic, it is also about the projection of prestige which cuts to the very core of regime legitimacy. This in turn feeds into the growing ideational competition between and amon…
Israel’s Security Nexus as Strategic Restraint
This article examines the debates in Israel between 2009 and 2013 over Iran’s nuclear programme as a reflection of a particular type of civil–military or civil–security relationship. It analyses how key actors within that relationship – particularly those with an intelligence background – engaged with media outlets in Israel and further afield to influence domestic and international opinion over how best to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In so…
Israel’s relations with the Gulf states
By drawing on the literature about security regimes, this article posits the idea that a particular type of regime, which can be termed a “tacit security regime” (TSR), has begun to emerge between Israel, on the one hand, and several Gulf Arab states, on the other. It is a regime which, unlike liberal institutional variants that attempt to privilege the promotion of collective norms, remains configured around perceptions of threats to be countere…
Aden, South Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
Five decades after withdrawing its troops from Aden for the last time, the decision by the Government of Harold Wilson to abandon the Federation of South Arabia (FSA) and with it, the various tribal potentates that had aligned themselves with this project in state creation continues to generate vociferous debate. For some, any attempt to configure a modern state from a largely tribal field was doomed to fail as internecine conflict; regional riva…
The Foreign Policies of Middle East States
This new edition of The Foreign Policies of Middle East States reflects the momentous events and shifting dynamics that have occurred in the region in the nearly fifteen years since the first edition was published. Working within a common analytical framework, the authors offer a theoretically grounded, systematic examination of the foreign policies of eleven states
Confronting the Colonies
Notes1. E. Kedourie, ‘The Capture of Damascus, 1 October 1918’, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.1, No.1 (Oct. 1964), p.78.2. John Le Carre, The Secret Pilgrim (London: Penguin, 2011), p.12.3. See D.F. Eickelman and M. Dennison, ‘Arabizing the Omani Intelligence Services: Clash of Cultures?’, International Journal Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Vol.7, No.1 (1994), pp.8–9.4. C. Jones, ‘Military Intelligence, Tribes, and Britain's War in Dhofar 1…
Military intelligence and the war in Dhofar
This article examines the role military intelligence played in the Dhofar campaign between 1970 and 1976. Drawing on an array of sources, it examines not only the crucial role played by military intelligence in prosecuting a successful operational campaign against a Marxist inspired insurgency, but equally, the importance that intelligence played in consolidating the Al Bu Said dynasty when across Oman and Dhofar itself, the material benefits to …
Between Terrorism and Civil War
This volume seeks to explore whether the current violence, its origins and dynamics can best be understood as a manifestation of civil war. In so doing, it considers how the use of violence by all parties has been conditioned and/or constrained by the domestic factors pertaining to their societies, how external actors have dealt with the violence internally, and how this has impacted on their relations with Israel and the Palestinians, and what d…
Israel's Clandestine Diplomacies
For over sixty years, the state of Israel has proved adept at practising clandestine diplomacy - about which little is known, as one might expect. These hitherto undisclosed episodes in Israel's diplomatic history are revealed in this book, where chapters explore how relations based upon patronage and personal friendships, as well as ties born from kinship and realpolitik both informed the creation of the state and later defined Israel's relation…
Ending Empire in the Middle East
Missing the 'devils' we knew? Israel and political Islam amid the Arab Awakening
While the immediate outcome of the Iraq War of 2003 was certainly to Israel's strategic advantage, the more immediate and indeed visceral challenge of the ongoing Al-Aqsa intifada has dominated the security horizons of most Israelis. The legacy of this conflict, with its strong Islamist overtones, has clearly had a bearing on how the Arab Awakening has come to be perceived by Israel. Taking this experience as its starting point, this article exam…
Adopting Large Sibling Groups
Journal Article Adopting Large Sibling Groups: The Experiences of Adopters and Adoption Agencies Get access Adopting Large Sibling Groups: The Experiences of Adopters and Adoption Agencies, Hilary Saunders and Julie Selwyn, London, British Association for Adoption and Fostering, 2011, pp. vii+281, ISBN 978 1 907585 44 9 (pb), £14.95 Christine Jones Christine Jones Lecturer in Social Work, Durham University Search for other works by this author on…
Europe, Globalization and the Coming Universal Caliphate
Europe, Globalization and the Coming Universal Caliphate Bat Ye'or Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011, Pp. xiv + 209, bibliography, index, £15.95 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-61147-492-3 Ever sin
Good Friends in Low Places? The British Secret Intelligence Service and the Jewish Agency 1939–45
This article explores intelligence collaboration between British Intelligence and the Jewish Agency during the Second World War. Most accounts of this period highlight the functional nature of this collaboration, accounts that inevitably have come to be viewed through the prism of the Holocaust, and with it the prevailing sense that Britain offered ‘too little too late to help’ in using its clandestine assets to help rescue the remnants of Europe…
The Lingering Conflict
Israel’s relations with the Gulf states
By drawing on the literature about security regimes, this article posits the idea that a particular type of regime, which can be termed a “tacit security regime” (TSR), has begun to emerge between Israel, on the one hand, and several Gulf Arab states, on the other. It is a regime which, unlike liberal institutional variants that attempt to privilege the promotion of collective norms, remains configured around perceptions of threats to be countere…
Israeli counter‐insurgency strategy and the war in South Lebanon 1985–97
The Writing on the Wall
Most analyses and commentary surrounding the construction of Israel's security barrier or fence have focused on the adverse impact this has had on bilateral relations with the Palestinian Authority, its institutions and people. For most Israelis, such concerns voiced by the Palestinians themselves as well as the wider international community denies agency to their physical security in the face of an Islamist nemesis that apparently brooks no comp…
Ending Empire in the Middle East
The Lingering Conflict
One Size Fits All
While the world remains familiar with the ever present visual images of the ongoing violence between Israel and the Palestinians, relatively little attention has been paid to the manner in which intelligence has been used by Israel in its attempts to curb what it regards as Palestinian terrorism. This article looks at the way in which tactical or operational intelligence has come to be used by both the Israel Defence Forces and the political lead…
Europe, Globalization and the Coming Universal Caliphate
Europe, Globalization and the Coming Universal Caliphate Bat Ye'or Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011, Pp. xiv + 209, bibliography, index, £15.95 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-61147-492-3 Ever sin
The Tribes that Bind
Beset by multiple security challenges, not least the emergence of a powerful Al Qaeda franchise, Yemen appears the antithesis of the “Weberian” state model. But while these challenges are acute, they should be seen as part of a wider “political field,” dominated by powerful tribes and conditioned by patrimonial networks that have long framed the modes of political exchange between the center and periphery. This remains crucial to understanding th…
Hostages to Fortunes
Hostage-taking has become a distressing feature of international politics over the last two decades, associated either with terrorist groups or hostile state actors, such as Iran, willing to engage in hostage diplomacy for political and security advantage. By contrast, the incarceration of foreign nationals by friendly powers has received scant attention. This is the hidden dimension of hostage diplomacy. By examining the case of British national…
Missing the 'devils' we knew? Israel and political Islam amid the Arab Awakening
While the immediate outcome of the Iraq War of 2003 was certainly to Israel's strategic advantage, the more immediate and indeed visceral challenge of the ongoing Al-Aqsa intifada has dominated the security horizons of most Israelis. The legacy of this conflict, with its strong Islamist overtones, has clearly had a bearing on how the Arab Awakening has come to be perceived by Israel. Taking this experience as its starting point, this article exam…
Among ministers, mavericks and mandarins’
Ideo‐theology and the Jewish state
The assassination of Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin provided the most vivid demonstration to date of religious‐nationalist opposition inside Israel to the principle of exchanging land for peace. This article sets out to explore this world view and its intellectual origins, exploring in the process how the use of sacred Judaic texts have become both the monopoly of religious‐nationalism and the template for politically inspired violence against tho…
Ideo‐theology
(1997). Ideo‐theology: Dissonance and discourse in the state of Israel. Israel Affairs: Vol. 3, From Robin to Netyanyahu: Israel's Troubled Agenda, pp. 28-46
Israel and the Gulf monarchies
Death Tango
Military intelligence and the war in Dhofar
This article examines the role military intelligence played in the Dhofar campaign between 1970 and 1976. Drawing on an array of sources, it examines not only the crucial role played by military intelligence in prosecuting a successful operational campaign against a Marxist inspired insurgency, but equally, the importance that intelligence played in consolidating the Al Bu Said dynasty when across Oman and Dhofar itself, the material benefits to …
Military Intelligence, Tribes, and Britain's War in Dhofar, 1970–1976
This article examines the hitherto overlooked role of military intelligence in the Dhofar campaign of 1970-1976. Drawing on an array of new sources, it not only details the functional role of military intelligence in the campaign, but also makes a distinction between "attitudinal" and "behavioral" support in understanding the "human terrain," and thereby how military intelligence helped secure acceptance of the regime of Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id a…
Private Military Companies as ‘Epistemic Communities’
The role of the private military company (PMC) remains one of the more controversial aspects of security studies. For many, they represent little more than corporate ‘dogs of war’, beneficiaries of misplaced munificence from donor countries unable or unwilling to intervene in failed states directly or in areas where the challenge of post-war reconstruction is particularly violent. Such moral objections, however well intentioned, have done little …
Revisiting Civil War
Israel's democracy at fifty
Israel possesses a strong democratic tradition, and one that predates the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. Universal suffrage, freely contested elections, freedom of the press, of assembly and association are hallmarks of a pluralism that proliferates throughout a political landscape that sets Israel apart from the more draconian systems of its Arab neighbours. Even so, the June 1967 war and the capture of the Occupied Territories marked a w…
Britain and the Arabian Gulf
Saudi Arabia After the Gulf War
Simon Bolivar (el Libertador), Patriot, Warrior, Statesman, Father of five Nations; A Sketch of His Life and Work
A Bibliography of Latin-American Bibliographies
Arab responses to Soviet Jewish Aliya, 1989–1992
Saudi Arabia After the Gulf War
Ideo‐theology
(1997). Ideo‐theology: Dissonance and discourse in the state of Israel. Israel Affairs: Vol. 3, From Robin to Netyanyahu: Israel's Troubled Agenda, pp. 28-46
Israeli counter‐insurgency strategy and the war in South Lebanon 1985–97
Soviet Jewish Aliyah 1989-92
Lively, written and theoretically sophisticated, Soviet Jewish Aliyah 1989-92: Impact and Implications for Israel and the Middle East is valuable for students of Israeli immigration and for anyone interested in understanding the implications of international migration within a detailed context of political relations on the national and international level. Steven Gold, Michigan State University, International Migration Review well organized and t…
Britain and the Arabian Gulf
An introduction to civil wars
Territorial foundations of the Gulf States
Ideo‐theology and the Jewish state
The assassination of Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin provided the most vivid demonstration to date of religious‐nationalist opposition inside Israel to the principle of exchanging land for peace. This article sets out to explore this world view and its intellectual origins, exploring in the process how the use of sacred Judaic texts have become both the monopoly of religious‐nationalism and the template for politically inspired violence against tho…
Israel's democracy at fifty
Israel possesses a strong democratic tradition, and one that predates the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. Universal suffrage, freely contested elections, freedom of the press, of assembly and association are hallmarks of a pluralism that proliferates throughout a political landscape that sets Israel apart from the more draconian systems of its Arab neighbours. Even so, the June 1967 war and the capture of the Occupied Territories marked a w…
The Foreign Policies of Middle East States
Conclusion
A framework for analysis
(2003). A framework for analysis. Civil Wars: Vol. 6, The Al‐Aqsa Intifada Between Terrorism and Civil War, pp. 1-8
One Size Fits All
While the world remains familiar with the ever present visual images of the ongoing violence between Israel and the Palestinians, relatively little attention has been paid to the manner in which intelligence has been used by Israel in its attempts to curb what it regards as Palestinian terrorism. This article looks at the way in which tactical or operational intelligence has come to be used by both the Israel Defence Forces and the political lead…
Britain and the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1965
Between 1962 and 1965 Britain engaged in covert operations in support of Royalist forces fighting the Egyptian backed Republican regime that had seized power in the Yemeni capital Sana’a in September 1962. Covert action was regarded as a legitimate tool of foreign policy as Britain attempted to secure the future of the newly formed South Arabian Federation against the animus of Nasser. The use of covert action, as well as the quasi approval given…
Among ministers, mavericks and mandarins’
Private Military Companies as ‘Epistemic Communities’
The role of the private military company (PMC) remains one of the more controversial aspects of security studies. For many, they represent little more than corporate ‘dogs of war’, beneficiaries of misplaced munificence from donor countries unable or unwilling to intervene in failed states directly or in areas where the challenge of post-war reconstruction is particularly violent. Such moral objections, however well intentioned, have done little …
Revisiting Civil War
Israel and Hizbollah
1. Introduction Clive Jones 2. From Benign to Malign: Israeli-Lebanese Relations, 1948-1978 Laurie Eisenberg 3. From the Litani to Beirut: Israel's Invasions of Lebanon, 1978-1985: Causes and Consequences Asher Kaufman 4. The Emergence of Hizb'allah and the Beginnings of Resistance, 1982-1985 Hussein Sirriyeh 5. Hizbollah: From Terror to Resistance: Towards a National Defense Strategy Daniel Sobelman 6. Israeli Counter-Insurgency Strategy and the…
The Writing on the Wall
Most analyses and commentary surrounding the construction of Israel's security barrier or fence have focused on the adverse impact this has had on bilateral relations with the Palestinian Authority, its institutions and people. For most Israelis, such concerns voiced by the Palestinians themselves as well as the wider international community denies agency to their physical security in the face of an Islamist nemesis that apparently brooks no comp…
What's Left of the Left in Israel? The Shadow of the February 2009 National Election
The February 2009 elections mark a water-shed in Israeli politics and highlight an increasingly rightward drift in Israeli politics: Labour had its worst ever result. The violent intifada shattered belief that negotiations with the Palestinians could ever be successful and the security barrier seemed increasingly necessary if Israel was to remain both Jewish and democratic. The coalition government constructed by Binyamin Netanyahu was carefully …
The Tribes that Bind
Beset by multiple security challenges, not least the emergence of a powerful Al Qaeda franchise, Yemen appears the antithesis of the “Weberian” state model. But while these challenges are acute, they should be seen as part of a wider “political field,” dominated by powerful tribes and conditioned by patrimonial networks that have long framed the modes of political exchange between the center and periphery. This remains crucial to understanding th…
A Tribal Order
A Tribal Order: Politics and Law in the Mountains of Yemen Shelagh Weir Austin, University of Texas Press, 2007, Pp. xvii + 390, bibliography, index, $50.00 (hardback) ISBN-13 978-0-292-71423-6 If
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