Panama's Canal

What Happens when the United States Gives a Small Country what it Wants

• Author(s): Mark Falcoff,
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Pages: 168
• ISBN_10: 0844740306
  ISBN_13: 9780844740300
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Latin America / Central America , History / United States / General , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / International Relations / General , Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... On the last day of 1999, the United States turns over full possession of the Panama Canal and adjacent lands to Panama - and ends nine decades of presence in the isthmus. The author analyzes Panama's complicated society and politics, reviews the treaties, and evaluates Panama's comanagement of the canal with the United States and the canal's continuing viability, including environmental and modernizing needs.