Review by Choice Review
Kaufman, a well-known Israeli scholar who specializes in Latin American politics, analyzes the collapse of the government of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973. His book emphasizes contemporary international and domestic influences on the last weeks and days of the Popular Unity (UP) regime as well as the impact of long-term structural processes upon the events in Chile. Part 1 analyzes the impact of external actors, in particular the US. ``Domestic Actors''-interest groups, the military, the political opposition, and the economic and political structures in place in the 1970s-are reviewed in Part 2. In an innovative Part 3, Kaufman focuses on the problems within the decision-making elite. The concluding section discusses crisis behavior in Chile and briefly applies the approach to other crisis situations. The book is well written. It has a superior index and selected bibliography. Of interest to graduate students and faculty as well as to general readers.-R.A.J. Roett, Johns Hopkins University
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
Review by Choice Review
