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Review: Africa: African Crisis Areas and U.S. Foreign Policy

suppression that are most visibly oppressive and most likely to generate domestic violence. Increasingly, Botha has come to rely on his re-structured State Security Council ssc, one of the four streamlined pivotal cabinet committees, though the largest in terms of secretariat personnel. In effect, Botha and his ssc have become a 'shadow government' within the whites-only elected government. Though only an advisory organ, the ssc is the central policy-making unit linking the other elements of the security establishment which includes the SADF, the intellligence community, the defence-related intellectual community, the armaments and related industries, and the SAP. This state organ is, arguably, the most influential in the central government structure, yet is not answerable to any constituency save the state president. This short but well-written book provides for a much-needed look by a wider audience at the restructured government as it is today and hints at the decision-making process behind cabinet committee doors in Pretoria. Within his narrower focus, Grundy provides rigorous evidence for seeing the current Botha government not as reformist but as managing a reorganized decision-making process to ensure 'the efficacy of a coercive maintenance of order' (p 5).