Luca Trenta’s The President’s Kill List: Assassinations and US Foreign Policy Since 1945 is an evidence-based study that sheds light on “continuity” in the use of assassinations as an instrument of American foreign policy from 1945 to the current times. The book breaks free from the earlier perception that assassinations in US foreign policy existed…
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Article Review 117 on “Killing Norms Softly: US Targeted Killing, Quasi-secrecy and the Assassination Ban.”
How does a democratic (U.S.) government wield secrecy? This is the core question of Andris Banka and Adam Quinn’s “Killing Norms Softly: US Targeted Killing, Quasi-Secrecy and the Assassination Ban,” which advances a theory of how norms of secrecy can be changed to serve executive needs. Focusing on the case of targeted killing under both…