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This week on Babel, Jon Alterman welcomes Jason Rezaian back to the podcast. Jason is a former hostage and alongside Jon, he is the co-executive director of the CSIS Commission on Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention. They speak about the growing phenomenon of hostile governments and groups imprisoning Americans to gain leverage against the United States, why it\u2019s becoming more common, and what the United States can do both to respond when an American is detained and to deter wrongful detention and hostage taking altogether. Then, Jon continues the conversation with Natasha Hall and Danny Sharp, speaking about the case of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton graduate student who was kidnapped in Iraq in March by groups close to the Iranian government.\xa0\n\nJason Rezaian, \u201cNow the real work to end hostage-taking and wrongful detentions begins,\u201d Washington Post Global Opinions, August 30, 2022.\xa0\n\nJason Rezaian and Danny Sharp, \u201cJust Call Them Hostages,\u201d CSIS, July 20, 2023.\xa0\n\nTranscript, \u201cJason Rezaian: The Rise of Hostage Taking,\u201d CSIS, July 25, 2023.