Tez--Ankara Üniversitesi. / Documents: p. 210-238. Bibliography: p. xiv-xxiii.

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Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Tucker, David ; Everton, Sean. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 28, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: targeted killing, assassination, counterterrorism, Second Intifada, al-Aqsa Intifada, irregular warfare, counterinsurgency, Anti-Terrorist Fence, Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-91). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Gordon McCormick, George Lober. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-80). Also available online.

This thesis sets out to research the phenomenon of political assassinations. Political assassinations are not random acts of folly which defy analysis but are well planned and discriminate acts of violence which, like terrorism, need to be further researched. The central argument of the thesis is that political assassination cannot be justified and the following research questions will be addressed: o Can the assassinations analysed in the thesis be categorised as political assassinations? o Can the justifications that are analysed within the thesis offer justifications for these political assassinations? o Are political assassinations only successful as existential acts? The thesis will begin by trying to clearly state what constitutes a political assassination and how it is different from terrorism. It will then analyse the various justifications that can be used to justify political assassinations. The thesis will illustrate three theoretical approaches that can be used. These are the instrumental justification, the non - utilitarian justification and terroristic justification. It will then examine the three cases of political assassinations which include that of Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Rajiv Gandhi of India. Each case study will analyse the questions stated above and attempt to find the answers. The thesis will then explore the political assassination regime by assessing the advantages and disadvantages of prohibition and will also raise some interesting questions about potential legal framework for the phenomenon. The thesis will then conclude my examining similarities and differences between the cases by focusing on three main factors. These are target, ideology and motives and finally aims.

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The purpose of this paper is to explain the events leading to and events of the attempted assassination of Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 14 , 1912. A comparison and contrast is made between information gained through the study of previously undiscovered primary sources and what has been accepted by and written about by historians . The background of the would- be- assassin and his motives in shooting Theodore Roosevelt have been investigated. The paper is divided into six major parts: Introduction, Nominating Conventions- -1912, Milwaukee, October-14, 1912, Elbert E. Martin , John F. Schrank and Conclusion.

Thesis (MCS) -- AUT University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (96 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.) in the Archive at the City Campus (T 364.152408807 BAR)

AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF WEI GAO, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in ECONOMICS, presented on JUNE 28th, 2011, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: ASSASSINATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE MAJOR PROFESSORS: SCOTT GILBERT AND KEVIN SYLWESTER The goal of this dissertation is to investigate how assassination attempts affect economic performances. The challenge is that assassination attempts may not be exogeneous. Thus, I use the outcome of an assassination attempts, success or failure, which is plausibly exogeneous, as the key independent dummy variable to conduct the econometric analysis. This dissertation is composed of three chapters. The first chapter studies whether national leadership shocks affect a country's economic growth. Jones and Olken (2005) find that national leaders' accidental death has impacts on the country's economic growth. Jones and Olken (2009) also find that different outcomes of assassination attempts, success versus failure, matter for the institutions of the country. This chapter follows the methodology in Jones and Olken (2009) to study the impact of different assassination outcomes on economic growth. This chapter finds that basically assassination attempts have no impact on economic growth. But assassination attempts are statistically significant considering two year window. The second chapter studies whether national leadership shocks affect a country's investment. This chapter follows the same methodology in the first chapter to study the impact of different assassination outcomes on investment. The findings in this chapter show that plausibly exogeneous outcome of assassination attempts does not determine the growth of investment or investment level in the country. The result is robust to controlling for different political regimes. The result is also robust to use propensity score approach to separate the effects of successful assassination attempts and unsuccessful ones. The third chapter studies whether national leadership has influence on economic policies. Jones and Olken (2005) find that leaders affect monetary policy and find no persuasive evidence that leaders affect fiscal, trade or security policy. This chapter employs the same methodology in the first two chapters to reexamine the issue. The findings in this chapter find no persuasive evidence that leaders affect fiscal policy or monetary policy. However, there is some evidence that national leaders affect trade policy.

This essay is a study of Albert Camus' response to three questions that were especially relevant vis-a-vis the social and political chaos that prevailed in Europe during and after the two world wars. Though indeed, these questions are in many respects timeless. Namely, the three questions this essay seeks to answer are the following: 1) Is suicide the answer to the absurd?; 2) In the context of the absurd is murder permitted?; and 3) Upon what principle can we build a code of conduct to which man ought to adhere in the arena of politics? To answer these questions this essay concentrated on two of Camus' major works—The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel. In doing so, no attempt was made to develop a concise system of political thought. Instead, emphasis was placed on developing an exposition of Camus' main thought and of his major arguments. In this sense, this essay seeks to present the thought of one man who was intimately involved in the social and political events that dominated Europe for a span of some thirty five to forty years. And, one step further, this essay seeks to present his response to the despair and anguish that followed in the wake of the two world wars. Since the overall thrust of this essay was directed at developing normative answers to questions, the extent to which they can or ought to be applied is itself a normative question. In this sense, this essay came to no scientifically supportable conclusions. Nevertheless, the conclusions this essay does reach show clearly that the thought of Camus is one we ought not to overlook if we are to gain a better understanding of how men have acted and perhaps how they ought to act. / Master of Arts