Killing in the Name of the State: State-Sponsored Assassination in International Politics

القتل باسم الدولة: الاغتيال المدعوم من الدولة في السياسة الدولية

Killing in the Name of the State: State-Sponsored Assassination in International Politics

How do governments approach, understand, and even justify assassination? What methods have been used historically, and how do they differ from current practice? What are the consequences of assassination for international politics, diplomacy, and international law? These are the fundamental questions animating this ground-breaking exploration of the adoption and deployment of assassination as an instrument of statecraft.
Publisher Lynne Rienner Publishers
Author Luca Trenta
Country USA
Publication Date 01/01/2026
Pages 355
Edition first
Size 15×23
About the Author Luca Trenta is associate professor of international relations at Swansea University. Kiril Avramov is assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and a fellow with the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas at Austin.
Publisher Address publicity@rienner.com
ISBN 979-8-89616-358-9