Dani Gilbert is the David and Cindy Edelson Fellow in US Foreign Policy and International Security at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. In fall 2023, she will join Northwestern University as an assistant professor of political science. Gilbert’s current book project examines why and how armed groups kidnap during civil war. It is based on her doctoral dissertation, which received the American Political Science Association's 2021 Merze Tate Award for the Best Dissertation in International Relations, Law, and Politics. Her scholarship has been published in American Political Science Review, Texas National Security Review, and International Studies Perspectives, among others. Gilbert’s work has also appeared in Foreign Affairs, War on the Rocks, and The Washington Post.
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Hostage-taking presents nations with a conundrum: How can governments bring their citizens home while also preventing further captures? The United States’s top hostage negotia...