Peter Sanchez: Panama Lost? U.S. Hegemony, Democracy, and the Canal

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Notes

1. For instance, at the most recent congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) held in Montreal, Canada, on 5–9 September 2007, there were only seven papers on Panama, out of an estimated total of three thousand presentations in approximately one thousand panels, workshops, and other academia events.

2. Peter H. Smith, Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 108–26.

3. Adam Watson, The Evolution of International Society: A Comparative Historical Analysis (London and New York: Routledge, 1992).

4. Thomas Pearcy, We Answer Only to God: Politics and the Military in Panama, 1903–1947 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998), p. 98.

5. Richard Koster and Guillermo Sánchez Borbón, In the Time of the Tyrants: Panama, 1968–1990 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1990).