ABSTRACT
In the second phase of hegemonic decline, from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, two negotiations were more important in US-Indonesian relations than any other. The first negotiation, from 1966 to 1975, was about the re-establishment of economic and military assistance after the alleged communist coup attempt; the second, in 1974–9, was about human rights in Indonesia as a condition for the United States to continue and broaden military and economic relations and aid. The division between the first and the second phase of hegemonic decline was that in the first phase, the hegemonic ideology and the leadership role came under attack by subordinates but the hegemon did not adjust its ideology to the new situation. In the United States' interpretation of the changed setting of US-Indonesian bargaining, the conditions for cooperation had changed drastically now that Indonesia had altered its policies toward communism.
