Latin America, Western Europe, and the U.S.: Reevaluating the Atlantic Triangle by WolfGrabendorff; Riordan RoettReview by: Robert D. CrasswellerForeign Affairs, Vol. 63, No. 5 (Summer, 1985), p. 1120Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20042406 .

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1120 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

The Western Hemisphere

Robert D. Crassweller

THE CANADIANS. By Andrew H. Malcolm. New York: Times Books, 1985, 385

pp. $17.95. An affectionate and perceptive essay for Americans. The discussion of

geography, with emphasis on the Arctic, is especially good. The treatment of Quebec, however, is somewhat superficial. Malcolm, an American of Canadian descent, was for four years correspondent in Toronto for The New York Times. G.S.

THE LAST TWO YEARS OF SALVADOR ALLENDE. By Nathaniel Davis. Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell University Press, 1985, 480 pp. $24.95.

Writing with a conspicuous lack of partisan bias and personal grudge, the former ambassador to Chile presents a vivid and detailed picture of the

Allende regime and its dramatic fall. The writing achieves a synthesis of authoritative analysis and the readability of a good detective story. Among the conclusions: the balance of probability clearly supports suicide as the cause of Allende's death, not murder.

THE RISE AND FALL OF CHILEAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY. By Michael Fleet. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985, 292 pp. $35.00

(paper, $14.50). A balanced and thoughtful review of the Christian Democratic Party in

Chile, its history, its performance in and out of office, its relationship to similar parties elsewhere, and its prospects. The author thinks the party has lost credibility with its constituency and will soon have to participate in a

left-center or in a right-center coalition, since in its present form it is "not

likely to endure beyond the early stages of the transition to civilian rule."

LATIN AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES: COLOMBIA, COSTA RICA, VENEZUELA. By John A. Peeler. Chapel Hill: University of North Caro lina Press, 1985, 193 pp. $24.00.

The comparative success of Costa Rica, Colombia and Venezuela in

achieving orderly democratic polities raises interesting and significant ques tions, well treated here. Explanations of course depend on specific political conditions as well as on economic and social factors, but the author assigns

primary credit to the "spirit of accommodation" between key political sectors, to pacts of accommodation between rival elites.

LATIN AMERICA, WESTERN EUROPE, AND THE U.S.: REEVAL UATING THE ATLANTIC TRIANGLE. Edited by Wolf Grabendorff and Riordan Roett. New York: Praeger, 1985, 220 pp. $37.95.

Fourteen essays analyze the changing relations and patterns of interde

pendence between the European and the Latin American components of a

New Atlantic Triangle that would include the United States. The Latin American emphasis is on Brazil. The authors are well-known scholars from all three regions, and their efforts in the areas of economics, security, politics and energy mesh well. An overview and a conclusion add much to

the unusual degree of focus and direction.

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