Kidnapping Politics in East Asia

Introduction: History is filled with political abductions, incidents in which individuals are kidnapped and held hostage by hostile groups or states to gain leverage or legitimacy for their cause.1 Such episodes have been used since antiquity to highlight the failure of rulers to perform their singl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samuels, Richard J.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Lynne Rienner Publishers 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72324
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4545-2193