ABSTRACT
The context of the hegemonic phase, where the hegemonic ideology and role is challenged is characterized by a similar setting of players as the phase of integral hegemony. However, again the specific bargaining process introduced another player, a US ally and an Indonesian foe, the Netherlands/the United Kingdom to the negotiation setting. The influence of the hegemonic phase on the domestic bureaucratic bargaining in the United States and in Indonesia is mainly demonstrated in the difficulty of finding shared constructions of the US-Indonesian bargaining game, particularly when the world view of Indonesia was based on a construction that challenged the cold war construction, but the United States had not yet started to react to this challenge to their general cold war vision of the world. All the United States could do was to try to make the diplomatic bargaining game more attractive than the military bargaining game. In so doing the reality of the military threat became highly relevant.
