Political Assassinations

https://www.rozen-bakher.com/forum/2021/07/11/political-assassination

Published Date: 11 July 2021. Last Update: 7 November 2021

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Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher

Researcher in International Relations with a Focus on Security, Political and Economic Risks for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade

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Is the Political Assassination done by Internal Players or by External Players?

Do we need to refer to Political Assassination in a Democracy as a Coup in order to Transform the Regime in terms of Internal Public Policy, Foreign Policy and Geopolitical Interests?

How Do Political Assassinations Impact Geopolitical Stability?

Global prosperity is determined first and foremost by geopolitical stability.

Political assassination in a country undermines political stability, but it also could undermine regional stability and even geopolitical stability.

A coup is carried out by a military force in order to oust the current regime by taking control of the country's affairs, while a political assassination is carried out by political players, either internal or external, in order to oust the leader, so the outcome in both cases is a regime transformation.

In spite of that, the literature refers to a coup as a 'regime transformation', while it refers to political assassination, especially in a democracy, as a 'security fault' or as an extremist hate crime, despite that it leads de-facto to a regime transformation, even if the democracy remains, because any political leader has a different political agenda that transforms the regime in terms of policy and international relations, such as the dramatic change in the Israeli policy under Rabin before his assassination versus under Netanyahu after the assassination of Rabin.

Discussion on this Topic in the Research Literature

• State-directed political assassination in Israel: A political hypothesis - Nir Gazit, Robert J Brym, 2011 (sagepub.com)

• Project MUSE - The Rabin Assassination as a Turning Point in Israel's History (jhu.edu)

• The Political Consequences of Assassination - Zaryab Iqbal, Christopher Zorn, 2008 (sagepub.com)

• Assassination of political leaders: The role of social conflict - ScienceDirect

• Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy: Evidence from the Assassination of President McKinley | NBER

• The Unique and Misunderstood Wound Ballistics in the John F.... : The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology (lww.com)

• Sniper Target Tracking Analysis of John F. Kennedy Assassination

• Murder, Inc.: The CIA under John F. Kennedy - James H. Johnston - Google Books

• The Assassination of Europe, 1918-1942 (degruyter.com)

• State-Sponsored Assassination in International and Domestic Law 17 Yale Journal of International Law 1992 (heinonline.org)

• The Assassination of Lumumba - Ludo de Witte - Google Books

Latest News about this Topic

• Exploding drone assassination attempt on Iraqi PM fails | Iraq | The Guardian

• Assassination of Haiti's President Fuels a Battle for Control - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

• President Biden Issues Memorandum on the Public Release of Withheld JFK Assassination Records, Sets New Disclosure Deadline – Transforming Classification (archives.gov)

• What Biden is keeping secret in the JFK files - POLITICO

• Don’t Expect a Smoking Gun in the JFK Assassination Saga

• ‘An outrage against democracy’: JFK's nephews urge Biden to reveal assassination records (yahoo.com)

• Rabin Memorial Turns into Political Slugfest - Hamodia.com

• Lapid: Rabin assassin’s ‘ideological heirs’ are serving in Knesset today | The Times of Israel

• Netanyahu to skip official ceremony marking 26 years since Rabin assassination | The Times of Israel

• U.S. Has No Plans to Send Troops to Haiti Amid Political Turmoil (msn.com)

• Concerns grow over Haiti's political stability as details emerge about president's assassination - CBS News

• Haiti’s ‘descent into hell’ looms closer after death of president

• Two Haitian Americans are among those detained in brazen presidential assassination. Here's what we know. (msn.com)

• Slain Haitian leader's widow blames political enemies as power struggle intensifies

• Why attempted assassinations of Nkrumah if he wasn’t a great leader? (ghanaweb.com)