Hostage diplomacy

Getting to Nyet.

Floorplan of the Lefortovo prison, Moscow, Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Centre, Brandeis University, Boston.

In this week’s Not in Dispatches, we look at so-called “hostage diplomacy” – the practice of states arresting foreign nationals, often on trumped-up charges, to gain leverage over their adversaries.

Prisoner’s dilemma

Hostage diplomacy …