English Explanatory Dictionary

hostage diplomacy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.

Word forms

hostage diplomacy

Related words

commodity diplomacy diplomacy gunboat diplomacy hostage panda diplomacy ping-pong diplomacy

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