hostage diplomacy

English

Noun

hostage diplomacy (uncountable)

  1. (diplomacy) Diplomatic relations, by detention of foreigners to affect other goals, such as using arrests to influence the implementation of amenable foreign political decisions, or prisoner swaps.
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