Political Murder
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A History Of Political Murder In Latin America
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Author : W. John Green
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2015-04-27
A History Of Political Murder In Latin America written by W. John Green and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-27 with History categories.
A sweeping study of political murder in Latin America. This expansive history depicts Latin America’s pan-regional culture of political murder. Unlike typical studies of the region, which often focus on the issues or trends of individual countries, this work focuses thematically on the nature of political murder itself, comparing and contrasting its uses and practices throughout the region. W. John Green examines the entire system of political murder: the methods and justifications the perpetrators employ, the victims, and the consequences for Latin American societies. Green demonstrates that elite and state actors have been responsible for most political murders, assassinating the leaders of popular movements and other messengers of change. Latin American elites have also often targeted the potential audience for these messages through the region’s various “dirty wars.” In spite of regional differences, elites across the region have displayed considerable uniformity in justifying their use of murder, imagining themselves in a class war with democratic forces. While the United States has often been complicit in such violence, Green notes that this has not been universally true, with US support waxing and waning. A detailed appendix, exploring political murder country by country, provides an additional resource for readers. W. John Green is the Editor and Director of the Latin American News Digest and the author of Gaitanismo, Left Liberalism, and Popular Mobilization in Colombia.
Day Of The Assassins
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Author : Michael Burleigh
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2021-05-27
Day Of The Assassins written by Michael Burleigh and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-27 with Political Science categories.
‘Written with Burleigh’s characteristic brio, with pithy summaries of historical moments (he is brilliant on the Americans in Vietnam, for example) and full of surprising vignettes’ – The Times ’Book of the Week’ In Day of the Assassins, acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh examines assassination as a special category of political violence and asks whether, like a contagious disease, it can be catching. Focusing chiefly on the last century and a half, Burleigh takes readers from Europe, Russia, Israel and the United States to the Congo, India, Iran, Laos, Rwanda, South Africa and Vietnam. And, as we travel, we revisit notable assassinations, among them Leon Trotsky, Hendrik Verwoerd, Juvénal Habyarimana, Indira Gandhi, Yitzhak Rabin and Jamal Khashoggi. Combining human drama, questions of political morality and the sheer randomness of events, Day of the Assassins is a riveting insight into the politics of violence. ‘Brilliant and timely . . . Our world today is as dangerous and mixed-up as it has ever been. Luckily we have Michael Burleigh to help us make sense of it.’ – Mail on Sunday
Political Murder
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Author : Franklin L. Ford
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1987
Political Murder written by Franklin L. Ford and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
Ford's exploration of calculated, personalized assassination draws on history, literature, law, philosophy, sociology, and religion. Addressing the vast array of cases and combing thousands of years of history, he asks most of all whether assassination works.
Assassination
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Author : Lindsay Porter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Assassination written by Lindsay Porter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Assassination categories.
The Art Of Political Murder
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Author : Francisco Goldman
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2010-02-01
The Art Of Political Murder written by Francisco Goldman and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-01 with True Crime categories.
Winner of the T. R. Fyvel Book Award 2008 (Index on Censorship Awards) Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing 2009 On a Sunday night in 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala's leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death. Two days earlier, a Church-sponsored report had implicated Guatemala's government in the disappearances of 200,000 civilians. The Church, feeling that it could not rely on the legal system, took the controversial decision to assemble a team of men, Los Intocables (The Untouchables), to take down Gerardi's killers. In a gripping reconstruction, worthy of Graham Greene, Francisco Goldman traces Los Intocables struggle with the Guatemalan authorities to reveal the true story, uncovering the involvement of youth gangs, political corruption and organised crime. Most of all, he tells the story of an extraordinary group of courageous people and their fight for justice.
Putin S Killers
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Author : Amy Knight
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2019-08-06
Putin S Killers written by Amy Knight and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-06 with Political Science categories.
Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power, his critics have been turning up dead. According to Amy Knight, one of the West's foremost scholars of the KGB, this is no coincidence. Here, she links together dozens of deaths, exposing a far-reaching campaign of killing that is even tied to the Boston Marathon bombing. Russia is no stranger to political murder, from the Tsars and the Soviets through to the current regime, during which many journalists, activists, and political opponents have been slain. However convenient these deaths are for the Russian president, Kremlin defenders assert that there is no evidence against him. Because he controls all the murder investigations, Putin will never be seen holding a smoking gun. With new information about the most famous cases—such as Alexander Litvinenko, Boris Nemtsov, and the Salisbury poisoning victims—Knight assesses Putin's role in these deaths, and asks: is there nothing we can do to stop him?
Murder And Politics In Mexico
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Author : Sara Schatz
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-02-21
Murder And Politics In Mexico written by Sara Schatz and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-21 with Social Science categories.
Murder and Politics in Mexico studies the causes of political killings in Mexico’s liberalization-democratization within the larger context of political repression. Mexico’s democratization process has entailed a little known but highly significant cost of human lives in pre- and post-election violence. The majority of these crimes remain in a state of impunity: in other words, no person had been charged with the crime and/or no investigation of it had occurred. This has several consequences for Mexican politics: when the level of violence is extreme and when political killings that are systematic and invasive are involved, this could indicate a real fracture in the democratic system. This book analyzes several dimensions regarding impunity and political crime, more specifically, the political killings of members of the PRD in the post-1988 period in Mexico. The main argument proposed in this book is that impunity for political killings is a structured system requiring one central precondition, namely the failure of the legal system to function as a system of restraint for killings. Dr Schatz’s research finds that political assassinations are indeed rational, targeted actions but they do not occur within an institutional vacuum. Political assassinations are calculated strategies of action aimed at eliminating political rivals. As a form of interpersonal violence, political assassination involves direct or implied authorization from political leaders, the availability of assassins for hire and the willingness of some political leaders to utilize them against political opponents, and violent interactions between political parties combined with judicial system ineffectiveness. A corrupt legal system facilitates the use of political assassination and explains the persistence of impunity for political murder over time. To reduce political violence in the transition to electoral democracy, specific institutional conditions, namely a structured system of impunity for murder, must be overcome.
Orders To Kill
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Author : Amy Knight
language : en
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Release Date : 2017-09-19
Orders To Kill written by Amy Knight and has been published by Thomas Dunne Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with Political Science categories.
Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin’s reign that even includes terrorist attacks such as the Boston Marathon Bombing. Russia is no stranger to political murder, from the tsars to the Soviets to the Putin regime, during which many journalists, activists and political opponents have been killed. Kremlin defenders like to say, “There is no proof,” however convenient these deaths have been for Putin, and, unsurprisingly, because he controls all investigations, Putin is never seen holding a smoking gun,. But Amy Knight offers mountains of circumstantial evidence that point to Kremlin involvement. Called “the West’s foremost scholar” of the KGB by The New York Times, Knight traces Putin’s journey from the Federal Security Service (FSB) in the late 1990s to his subsequent rise to absolute power as the Kremlin’s leader today, detailing the many bodies that paved the way. She offers new information about the most famous victims, such as Alexander Litvinenko, the former FSB officer who was poisoned while living in London, and the statesman Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered outside the Kremlin in 2015, and she puts faces on many others who are less well-known in the West or forgotten. She shows that terrorist attacks in Russia, as well as the Boston Marathon bombing in the U.S., are part of the same campaign. And she explores what these murders mean for Putin’s future, for Russia and for the West, where in America Donald Trump has claimed, “Nobody has proven that he's killed anyone....He's always denied it....It has not been proven that he's killed reporters." Orders to Kill is a story long hidden in plain sight with huge ramifications.
Assassination
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Author : Xavier Waterkeyn
language : en
Publisher: New Holland Australia(AU)
Release Date : 2007
Assassination written by Xavier Waterkeyn and has been published by New Holland Australia(AU) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Assassination categories.
Most murder happens for private reasons, such as jealousy and greed but, when it's politically motivated, murder takes on the more elegant-sounding label of assassination. Starting with ancient Egypt and Rome then going right up to the present day, Assassination: Political Murder Through the Ages provides the facts and circumstances, the quirky and precise details as well as the power and politics that lie behind both the famous and the less well-known assassinations in recorded history. There are also a number of failed, foiled or simply bungled assassination attempts. Some of the names included are: Akhenaton, Hipparchus, Julius Caesar, Thomas Beckett, Jean-Paul Marat, Franz Ferdinand, Nikolai Ceausescu, Diane Fossey, John F Kennedy, Olof Palme, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Yitzak Rabin, Benigno Aquino, Mahatma Ghandi, Harvey Milk, Abraham Lincoln, Bobby Kennedy. Why did the ancient Romans shed so much of each other's blood? Who killed Olof Palme? Why are American presidents such tempting target, for assassins? The answers to these and many other intriguing questions are all in Assassination: Political Murder Through the Ages. Book jacket.
The Russian Syndrome
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Author : Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
language : en
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
Release Date : 1992
The Russian Syndrome written by Hélène Carrère d'Encausse and has been published by Holmes & Meier Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Today, as we confront the social and political upheaval that has led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a deeper understanding of Russia's turbulent past is more essential than ever. In this fascinating book, Russian history unfolds as a "continuous history of political murder" as the author, Helene Carrere d'Encausse, focuses on this dramatic theme from its origins in Kievan Rus to the threshold of the Gorbachev era. Since the eleventh century - when dynastic murder was used to settle questions of inheritance and succession in Kiev - through the regimes of Stalin and Brezhnev, there has been a tragic relation between politics, violence, and terror. The Russian Syndrome's riveting narrative not only brings to life extraordinary personalities and events - Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Bakunin, Rasputin, Lenin, the Stalinist terror, for example - but also serves as the framework for comparing and contrasting Russian historical patterns with those of Western Europe. Demonstrating in vivid detail the continuity and force of recurrent historical patterns that link the Soviet era with its prerevolutionary past, d'Encausse shows how terror and political violence, used by the tsars to consolidate their power and to unify the state, became the instruments of totalitarian successors as well as of those revolutionaries who aimed to destroy the state and bring about radical social and political change. Exploring the beliefs, ideology, and political culture of monarchs, dictators, revolutionaries, and reformers, this provocative and timely work illuminates the complex and traumatic course of Russian history as it sheds light on the Soviet state's enigmatic future.