CEVAP:

One of the peculiarities of the economic instruments of foreign policy is that, unlike diplomacy or war, their impact would not be direct, but indirect. In most cases, the economic instruments generally target whole public in order to generate a reaction against the government or decision makers to force them to behave in a way the instrument-employing country wishes them to do. Although their impacts on the decision-makers are rather indirect, the economic instruments could easily generate widespread public reaction quite easily.