Assassination and US Foreign Policy Since 1945
On this episode of American Prestige, Luca Trenta on US policy on assassinations as a foreign policy tool.
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Assassination And US Foreign Policy Since 1945 with Luca Trenta | American Prestige
On this episode of American Prestige, Danny and Derek are pleased to welcome back to the podcast Luca Trenta, associate professor in International Relations at Swansea University and author of The President’s Kill List. The group discusses assassinations and international law, when and how assassination became a tool for US foreign policy, the difficulties in accessing declassified documents about this topic, the unsuccessful attempts on the life of Fidel Castro and successful operations against the likes of Osama Bin Laden and Patrice Lumumba, the intelligence community using assassination as a “low level” (i.e. not nuclear) form of retaliation in the Cold War, the contemporary justifications for assassinations as “self defense”, the notion of “imminence”, and more.
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The President’s Kill List: Assassination and US Foreign Policy since 1945.
(Luca Trenta)On this episode of American Prestige, we are pleased to welcome back to the podcast Luca Trenta, associate professor in International Relations at Swansea University and author of The President’s Kill List. The group discusses assassinations and international law, when and how assassination became a tool for US foreign policy, the difficulties in accessing declassified documents about this topic, the unsuccessful attempts on the life of Fidel Castro and successful operations against the likes of Osama Bin Laden and Patrice Lumumba, the intelligence community using assassination as a “low level” (i.e., not nuclear) form of retaliation in the Cold War, the contemporary justifications for assassinations as “self-defense,” the notion of “imminence,” and more.
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The Ever-Evolving Espionage Act w/ Sam Lebovic | American Prestige
On this episode of American Prestige, Sam Lebovic, professor of history at George Mason University, joins Danny and Derek for a look at the Espionage Act of 1917 and its use over the years. In this first part of the discussion, they explore the dominant ideologies at the time of its inception, its implementation in cases from Eugene Debs to Herbert Yardley, the law’s effect on whistle-blowing, America’s burgeoning “secrecy regime”, how the interpretation shifted from the early years of the Act’s existence, and more through World War II.
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Sam’s book is State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime.
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