ABSTRACT
The successful use of unilateral economic coercion in suggests that existing theory on economic coercion needs reformulation. A triggering event is the specific occurrence or occurrences leading to the attempted coercion. The objectives themselves fall into various categories and often evolve and shift over time. In the case of India, the United States had the foreign objective of bolstering the Indian agricultural program. The setting of objectives is influenced by a triggering event or series of triggering events. The sanctions generally are believed to have failed in achieving their objectives in each case and excessive publicity has been cited as a major cause for the failure. Formal objectives are communicated either publicly or privately by the sender state to the target state. Some examples are the arming of India as a protection against China in the India Military Aid case and ending Sukarno’s Crush Malaysia policy in the Indonesian case.
