The Cave Mission of 1876 and Britain’s Imperial Information Strategies

IF 1.8 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Nick Foretek
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Abstract This article argues that the member of parliament Stephen Cave’s British government-sponsored mission to Egypt in 1876, and his subsequent report on Egyptian finances, represented a novel form of intelligence breach by an imperial power. This interference in Egyptian affairs helped to ensure the timing of Egypt’s bankruptcy that year by stymieing debt restructuring negotiations while simultaneously making conceivable future imperial interventions on a wider scale through fiscal policy oversight. Furthermore, this article develops the concept of ‘intelligence sovereignty’ through an analysis of the events leading up to Cave’s report and examines emerging British intelligence capacities in order to highlight the costs to states of sovereign intelligence breaches. In particular, it posits that sovereign debt instruments traded on the London Stock Exchange constituted a repository of information susceptible to intelligence tactics in the 1870s and offers a new entry point for considering the relationship between finance, policy making and imperial expansion.
1876年的洞穴使命与英国帝国信息战略
本文认为,1876年,英国国会议员斯蒂芬·凯夫(Stephen Cave)率领英国政府资助的代表团前往埃及,以及他随后撰写的关于埃及财政的报告,代表了一种皇权情报泄露的新形式。这种对埃及事务的干涉阻碍了债务重组谈判,从而确保了埃及当年破产的时机,同时,通过财政政策监督,可以想象未来帝国会在更大范围内进行干预。此外,本文通过对导致凯夫报告的事件的分析,发展了“情报主权”的概念,并检查了新兴的英国情报能力,以突出主权情报泄露给国家带来的代价。特别是,它假定在伦敦证券交易所(London Stock Exchange)交易的主权债务工具在19世纪70年代构成了一个易受情报手段影响的信息库,并为考虑金融、政策制定和帝国扩张之间的关系提供了一个新的切入点。
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