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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 17/07/2026

New research on hostage diplomacy negotiations co-authored by Buffett Faculty Fellow Danielle Gilbert ( @danigilbert.bsky.social ) ⬇️

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Political Science Department at Northwestern University @polisciatnu.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🔥Hot off the press via @ispp-pops.bsky.social A very particular set of skills: The role of perspective-taking in hostage diplomacy negotiations Profs. Dani Gilbert ( @danigilbert.bsky.social / @buffett.northwestern.edu ) & Cynthia Wang ( @cynthiascwang.bsky.social / @drrc-kellogg.bsky.social )

Gilbert, D., & Wang, C. S. (2026). A very particular set of skills: The role of perspective-taking in hostage diplomacy negotiations. Political Psychology, 47, e70173. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70173

Abstract
Hostage diplomacy—detaining foreign nationals for leverage under the pretext of national law—is a growing international security problem. Beyond constituting a violation of international law, hostage diplomacy is challenging to resolve. Target states must deal with aggressive, sovereign perpetrators; handle a fraudulent but plausible legal process; account for numerous stakeholders; and protect their citizens from future harm. How do target-state negotiators navigate these challenges? This theory-building article explores perspective-taking—imagining the world from another's vantage point—as a tool to shape target-state negotiators' effectiveness in navigating hostage diplomacy. We introduce a model that conceptualizes perspective-taking on two dimensions. First, negotiators can use multiple-perspective taking, considering various stakeholders, including interests within their own government, the perpetrator's government, and the hostage's family. Second, across stakeholders, negotiators can take strategic, cultural, emotional, and moral perspectives. We posit that engaging in different forms of perspective-taking improves target-state negotiators' ability to identify a domestic win-set, reach international agreement, and anticipate future crises. Drawing on insights from members of the U.S. hostage-recovery enterprise, we offer a plausibility probe suggesting that perspective-taking affects the process and outcomes of negotiations. Perspective-taking may thus help negotiators better manage power dynamics, navigate informal rules of engagement, alleviate uncertainty, and bolster global security.

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 08/06/2026

We're proud to announce our 2026–27 Buffett Faculty Fellows: @weinbergcollege.bsky.social Professors Jeong Eun Annabel We and Silyane Larcher, and @polisciatnu.bsky.social Professors Ana Arjona, @danigilbert.bsky.social, and Shmulik Nili.

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Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @buffett.northwestern.edu · 08/06/2026

Our new cohort of Buffett Faculty Fellows is embarking on projects spanning Colombia, France, Jeju, Okinawa, Hawaiʻi, & beyond, researching issues ranging from the hidden costs of civil war to the sacred grounds of Pacific islands, & from the logic of kidnapping to the philosophy of the unthinkable.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 24/03/2026

#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social - Who supports hostage recovery? Explaining individual variation in American support for bringing hostages home - cup.org/4sZqdQ1 - Danielle Gilbert & @laurenrprather.bsky.social #FirstView #ISA2026

Cover of the "European Journal of International Security" with a hashtag "#OpenAccess" displayed prominently.

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Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

One day, @laurenrprather.bsky.social is going to ask you to embark on a joint research agenda. It’s very important that you say yes 🤝 Thrilled that our first collaboration is out in the world! 👇👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Title and abstract of an academic article, “Who supports hostage recovery? Explaining individual variation in American support for bringing hostages home”

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Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

As the last surviving October 7th hostages come home, what have we learned about hostage taking and recovery? My latest in @goodauth.bsky.social explains 👇 goodauthority.org/news/4-takea...

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4 takeaways about the end of the Gaza hostage crisis

As their options declined, the Israeli government and Hamas finally came to the negotiating table.

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Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University @ipratnu.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

In @goodauth.bsky.social, @polisciatnu.bsky.social's @danigilbert.bsky.social explains President Trump’s new executive order creating a “state sponsor of wrongful detention” designation, aimed at punishing countries that detain foreigners as bargaining chips. spr.ly/63323ASHdP

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Trump wants to punish countries that wrongfully detain U.S. citizens

A new executive order aims to strike back against “hostage diplomacy.”

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Political Science Department at Northwestern University @polisciatnu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Will Trump's new executive order “Strengthening Efforts to Protect U.S. Nationals from Wrongful Detention Abroad” help deter hostage diplomacy? Four big questions remain. Professor @danigilbert.bsky.social via @goodauth.bsky.social goodauthority.org/news/trump-w...

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Trump wants to punish countries that wrongfully detain U.S. citizens

A new executive order aims to strike back against “hostage diplomacy.”

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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Trump wants to punish countries that wrongfully detain U.S. citizens. A new executive order aims to strike back against “hostage diplomacy.” Read the latest from @danigilbert.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/trump-w...

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Trump wants to punish countries that wrongfully detain U.S. citizens

A new executive order aims to strike back against “hostage diplomacy.”

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Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

What should we expect from President Trump’s new executive order on “wrongful detention”? My latest, on @goodauth.bsky.social, explains👇 goodauthority.org/news/trump-w...

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Trump wants to punish countries that wrongfully detain U.S. citizens

A new executive order aims to strike back against “hostage diplomacy.”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/07/2025

ALL CAPS THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ... GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪 www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

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Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push

The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.

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Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I’m currently building a dataset on police forces around the globe. No other country has a force quite like ICE (w/ broad enforcement powers, tactical gear, immigration focus); the most apt comparisons are to secret police in authoritarian regimes rather than border/immigration forces elsewhere.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This is an unappreciated downside of the Iranian airstrikes: it revealed capabilities of the MOD and the B-2 itself (both radar x-section and actual combat load/range) and, despite everything working perfectly, appears to have failed to destroy the program despite being built for this use

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

My colleague Nick Miller in The Economist www.economist.com/middle-east-...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2025

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Justice Sotomayor ends her dissent by saying the Supreme Court has permitted "thousands [to] suffer violence in farflung locales," an action which "rewards lawlessness" by the Trump administration. She says the Court has undermined the basic concept of Due Process under the law.

The Due Process Clause represents “the principle that ours is a government of laws, not of men, and that we submit ourselves to rulers only if under rules.” Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U. S. 579, 646 (1952) (Jackson, J., concurring). By rewarding lawlessness, the Court once again undermines that foundational principle. Apparently, the Court finds the idea that thousands will suffer violence in farflung locales more palatable than the remote possibility that a District Court exceeded its remedial powers when it ordered the Government to provide notice and process to which the plaintiffs are constitutionally and statutorily entitled. That use of discretion is as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable. Respectfully, but regretfully, I dissent.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Sotomayor's dissent is scathing. She accuses her colleagues of a gross abuse of discretion, saying they "interven[ed] to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied." She's right. The 6-justice majority is effectively endorsing contempt of court.

DHS v. D.V.D. Sotomayor, J, dissent. "... [T]his Court now intervenes to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied. I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion."

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

By the way, one of the reasons it’s terrible all of these people lie all of the time about meaningless things is it makes it impossible to believe them when they’re talking about incredibly consequential things.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Journalists: this thread has many, many people who can comment on different angles of the US attack on Iran. Contact them!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Donald Trump, a weak and dangerously reckless president, has put the United States on a path to a war in the Middle East that the country does not want, the law does not allow, and our security does not demand.

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Loren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Trump is skipping over all potential checks on use of force. Intl law - no claim of self defense. US law - no AUMF, does not meet WPR criteria, Article 2 so stretched it’s tearing. Partisan congressional notification only. Intel and defense principals objected. Vast majority of Americans opposed. 1/

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Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Trump is once against arsonist and fireman. If he hadn't pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal (which our own State Dept. certified Iran was in compliance with), we wouldn't be here.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

🧵 Quick legal thoughts on Trump's attack on Iran. It was patently illegal. And a further egregious assault on the rule of law in the US. 1/n

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Once again, if we were a more serious country, we would not be here right now & Iran would have been years further away from actually having nuclear weapons than it was two weeks ago.

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Laicie Heeley @laicie.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Oh hey if you wanna go back and listen to a whole season about why pulling out of the JCPOA during Trump’s first term was a terrible idea and would probably lead to war, we did that here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... (Season two.)

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Things That Go Boom

News Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · Stories about the ins, outs, and whathaveyous of what keeps us safe. Hosted by Laicie Heeley.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

No Congressional approval and we find out we're at war with Iran from a freaking social media post. Just straight up Mad King

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Data points like this and the badly outdated State/DoD websites suggest a lack of government coordination. Which is…well, not good when you’re getting into a war.

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Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The brilliant @rachelwhitlark.bsky.social just joined bluesky and there is no one better to follow right now.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Questions, in no particular order: 1. Where’s the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio? 2. Is there a homeland security/CT plan given recent focus on mass deportations and downgrading of CT? 3. Did the “2 weeks” backlash push him or was it a done deal? 4. Did he notify Congress at all? (More soon)

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Briefing only one party leadership on a decision to put American forces in harms way is a massive violation of norms. I mean, yeah, "norms", but still a break worth noting

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then, well, here it is, all in one post:

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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Among many other things this is a proliferation nightmare. The lesson learned will be never negotiate with the United States.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

“When Mahmoud Khalil was detained, I wrote on my blog that the U.S. had pivoted to a new tactic, one I called “the deportation of dissent.” Then it happened to me.” Stunning, from @alistairkitchen.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation

As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

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Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

As someone who studies kidnapping, I’d say we don’t have to label every abduction/ detention as “kidnapping” to indicate that it’s arbitrary, unlawful, or just plain vile. Fortunately, we’ve got a whole slate of terms for what’s going on. More from me with all of them, soon.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🧵IR scholars, let's start a thread of what we know that's relevant for a US attack on Iran. Won't change any minds, but might help us teach this crisis and learn new angles. Please add (incl. your own work!), forgive/correct omissions. Nobody can cover everything and it's great to find new work. 1/?

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's comptroller, mayoral candidate Brad Lander, has been arrested while visiting an immigration court.

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

🧵 To make this more concrete: don't assume Trump himself knows what he is going to do next in in the Israel-Iran conflict. He definitely doesn't want to get the US involved in a major war in the Middle East (that much he's been clear on). But he loves to bomb and look tough. 1/

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The Musgrave

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