The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World by Brown, Jonathan C.
The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World by Brown, Jonathan C.

The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World

Panama is a country whose geopolitical importance outweighs its size because of the volume of trade that...
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Author: Jonathan C. Brown
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The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World by Brown, Jonathan C.

The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World

$176.89
The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World by Brown, Jonathan C.

The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World

$176.89
Author: Jonathan C. Brown
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Panama is a country whose geopolitical importance outweighs its size because of the volume of trade that passes the Central American isthmus through the canal. For nearly a century, the United States occupied and controlled the Panama Canal Zone and its shipping operations. In 1999, control was passed to Panama's Canal Authority. This peaceful transfer was a result of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties. The Weak and the Powerful studies how a weak country negotiated the Cold War and how a strongman navigated between competing power blocs. Omar Torrijos took power in Panama through a 1968 coup d'état and ruled that country until his death in 1981. He committed his country to the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which purported to stand for noninterference and against imperialism. Jonathan C. Brown looks at how Torrijos and the NAM were able to mobilize world opinion of the weak against the powerful to pressure the United States to live up to its democratic and international ideals regarding sovereignty of the canal. The author also demonstrates how world opinion was unable to address the problems of ideologically motivated warfare in neighboring Central American states.

Author: Jonathan C. Brown
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 03/19/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780822948070

About the Author
Jonathan C. Brown is professor emeritus in history at the University of Texas at Austin. He has researched and written books on Latin American colonial history, Argentina's economic expansion of the early nineteenth century, the beginnings of the Mexican oil industry, a brief history of Argentina, and the Cuban Revolution of the 1960s.
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