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What is hostage diplomacy and why is it on the rise?

The Real Story

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The Morality of Hostage Diplomacy

Hostage taking is as old as politics itself, it's in the code of Hammurabi. It was a tool of ancient empires. And so essentially the perpetrators of this kind of coercion have learned time and time again, unfortunately, that it works.

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