Political Assassinations
Published: 11 July 2021. Last Update: 7 November 2021
Global Risks by Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher
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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 to Transform the Regime in terms of Internal Public Policy, Foreign Policy and Geopolitical Interests?
How Political Assassinations Impact the Geopolitical Stability?
Global prosperity lays first and foremost on geopolitical stability.
Political assassination in a country undermines political stability, but it also could undermine regional stability and even geopolitics stability.
A coup carries out by a military force in order to oust the current regime by taking control of the country affairs, while a political assassination carries 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 transform 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
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
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)
The Assassination of Lumumba - Ludo de Witte - Google Books
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