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Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare Ser.: President's Kill List : Assassination and US Foreign Policy Since 1945 by Luca Trenta (2024, Hardcover)

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The President’s Kill List: Assassination and US Foreign Policy since 1945 (Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare) by Trenta, Luca [Hardcover]

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PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-101399519492

ISBN-139781399519496

eBay Product ID (ePID)20070927733

Product Key Features

Number of Pages400 Pages

Publication NamePresident's Kill List : Assassination and Us Foreign Policy since 1945

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

SubjectSociology / General, Intelligence & Espionage, American Government / General, Security (National & International)

TypeTextbook

AuthorLuca Trenta

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science

SeriesIntelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsThis is a well-researched, timely, and valuable study of the United States' use of assassination as a tool of foreign policy., This breathtaking study of a controversial aspect of United States relations to the global south traces the rise, fall, and rise of assassination of foreign leaders. At the centre of the story is the 1970s ban on the technique as an obstacle circumvented with help from legal rationalization. Careful and scholarly, Trenta's book is a model of devastating and enlightening inquiry.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal364.1524

Table Of ContentIntroduction: The US Government and the Assassination of Foreign Officials Experimenting with Assassination: Brainwashing, Poison, and Early Cold War Plots Patrice Lumumba: Eisenhower's Order to Kill Fidel Castro: The US Government's Assassination Campaign against Cuba Rafael Trujillo: Assassination and the US Role in Covert Regime Change Ngo Dinh Diem: Preparing the Ground for Assassination René Schneider: Removing the Main obstacle to a Coup in Chile The Ban on Assassination: The 'Season of Inquiry' and the Fight Over the Prohibition on Assassination Muhammar Qaddafi: The Return of Assassination during the Reagan Years Manuel Noriega: Coups, Failed coups, and the Ban on Assassination Saddam Hussein: Assassination and the Long Confrontation between the US Government and Iraq Osama Bin Laden: Assassination and Counterterrorism on the Road to 9/11 Conclusion: Assassination, 'targeted killings,' and the ban since 9/11

SynopsisInvestigates the US government's involvement in the assassination of foreign officials from the early Cold War to the present day., From Fidel Castro to Qassem Soleimani, the US government has been involved in an array of assassinations and assassination attempts against foreign leaders and officials. The President's Kill List reveals how the US government has relied on a variety of methods, from the use of poison to the delivery of sniper rifles, and from employing hitmen to simply laying the groundwork for local actors to do the deed themselves. It shows not only how policymakers decided on assassination but also the level of Presidential control over these decisions. Tracing the history of the US government's approach to assassination, the book analyses the evolution of assassination policies and, for the first time, reveals how successive administrations - through private justifications and public legitimations - ensured assassination remained an available tool.

LC Classification NumberHV6278.T7 2024