Oriental studies were reframed as instruments of national postwar policy, not scholarship

Evidence

Oriental studies were to be thought of not so much as scholarly activities but as instruments of national policy towards the newly independent, and possibly intractable, nations of the postcolonial world. Armed with a refocused awareness of his importance to the Atlantic commonwealth, the Orientalist was to be the guide of policymakers, of businessmen, of a fresh generation of scholars. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 703

Categorization

• XREF: Directly names the ‘Atlantic commonwealth’ and postcolonial intractability — connects to later postcolonial and area-studies critiques (e.g. Said, the subaltern studies tradition).
• DEFINE: Defines the area-studies model of the Orientalist as policy guide, a core concept for the Islamophobia field’s genealogy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 703