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