We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom

by Joel Simon

Book Overview

A gripping exploration of the ethical, legal, and strategic considerations of a bedeviling question: Should governments pay ransom to terrorists?

Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria--journalists and aid workers--began disappearing without a trace. A year later the world learned they had been taken hostage by the Islamic State. Throughout 2014, all the Europeans came home, first the Spanish, then the French, then an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999745425
• ISBN13: 9780999745427
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.4"