Et Tu Brute? - The Murder of Caesar and Political Assassination by Greg Woolf 199pp, Profile, £15.99 The assassination of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate on March 15, 44BC is one of the capital events in history.
He played a key role in a high-profile assassination fiasco in the 1990s.
Now, faced with an economic crisis and the high-profile assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai, those dynamics have begun to shift again, perhaps easing the outside pressure on Egypt.
The worry is that the eggheads have become so caught up in serving the cowboys tactical intelligence about high-profile assassination targets that they have less bandwidth to devote to longer-term threats.
After a year of political turmoil, Western diplomats said they feared that one more "spark event," like another high-profile assassination, could ignite the kind of chaos across Pakistan that militants thrive on.
Mr Milosevic sought to discredit the witness - previously a member of the Serbian Red Berets - by forcing him to admit that he was involved in the highest-profile assassination since the end of the Balkan wars.
This is the most high-profile assassination to date and shows clear lapses in regime security.
The high-profile assassination of one of the Mexico's two Roman Catholic cardinals offers a window into the complex relationship between the Vatican and Mexico's drug cartels.
The term "deep state" takes us back to the height of the conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdish militant group PKK in the 1990s, when mysterious terror attacks or high profile assassinations sabotaged numerous ceasefires, dashed hopes for peace and triggered periods of fresh violence.
Secretary of State Clinton -- we are made to believe -- learned of a high profile political assassination as we all did, through the media.
