The Weak and the Powerful

Omar Torrijos, Washington, and the Non-Aligned Movement

By:

Jonathan C Brown

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Pitt Latin American Series

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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 Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

April 19th, 2024

Author

Jonathan C Brown

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

320

Series

Pitt Latin American Series

ISBN-13

9780822948070

Product ID

37446602

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