ABSTRACT
This chapter provides practical policy suggestions about instituting and carrying out economic coercion. The theory of economic coercion has long held that the presence of publicity adversely affects the chances of success. In the case of Indonesia, the United States was unable to achieve success in its primary goal of forcing Sukarno to alter his Crush Malaysia policy. The United States was successful, however, in its goal of supporting the political power of the anticommunist groups within Indonesia. Specific economic coercion objectives allow the sender to assess the short- and long-term coercion effects within the overall context of its foreign policy. The sender will be able to choose the most appropriate instruments and view the coercion attempt within the overall context of its foreign policy. The leaders of the target nation may choose to exploit publicity to increase the political integration within the target and to resist the sender’s coercion.
