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

Demonstrates How Public Opinion Can Be Brought to Bear against Powerful Nations

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.

Summary

The Weak and the Powerful studies how a weak country negotiated the Cold War and how a strongman navigated between competing power blocs.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan C Brown, Jonathan C. Brown
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2024
• EAN: 9780822948070
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4807-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Pitt Latin American Series; Pitt Latin American
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous