After Trading Prisoners with Russia: Can the World Negotiate with Putin

Last week's prisoner exchange with Russia - the largest since the Cold War, with 24 captives exchanged among seven countries - sparked hopes internationally that, just maybe, similarly determined diplomacy might help thaw the frigid relations between Russia and the West and open space for a negotiated end to Russia's aggressions abroad. Unfortunately, the prisoner deal's underlying message is that Vladimir Putin's regime uses negotiations only when it sees the outcome, as it did last week, as a victory at the expense of its perceived enemies. The deal illustrates the narrowness of opportunity for any negotiated solution to settle the sides' differences.

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