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Putting the canal on the map : Panamanian agenda-setting and the 1973 security council meetings

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Long, Tom (Thomas Stephen) (2014) Putting the canal on the map : Panamanian agenda-setting and the 1973 security council meetings. Diplomatic History, 38 (2). pp. 431-455. doi:10.1093/dh/dht096 ISSN 0145-2096.

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Abstract

In the early 1970s, Panama’s negotiations with the United States over the status of the Panama Canal ground to a standstill. General Omar Torrijos had rejected treaties left unratified by previous governments only to receive a less generous offer from the Nixon administration. Realizing that the talks were being ignored in Washington, the Panamanian government worked to internationalize the previously bilateral issue, creating and exploiting a high-profile forum: extraordinary meetings of the U.N. Security Council in March 1973 held in Panama City. In those meetings, Panama isolated the United States in order to raise the issue’s profile and amplify the costs of leaving the matter unsettled. Using underutilized Panamanian sources, this article examines that meeting, the succeeding progress, and the effect of this early stage on the final negotiations several years later. The case also illustrates how, during the unsettled international environment of the 1970s, a small state utilized international organizations to obtain attention and support for its most important cause.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: E History America > E151 United States (General)
F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1201 Latin America (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Panama Canal (Panama), United States -- Foreign relations -- Panama -- 1969-1974, United Nations. Security Council -- History -- 20th century, Torrijos, Omar, 1929-1981 -- Influence
Journal or Publication Title: Diplomatic History
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0145-2096
Official Date: 1 April 2014
Dates:
DateEvent
1 April 2014Published
11 March 2014Available
16 October 2012Accepted
Volume: 38
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 431-455
DOI: 10.1093/dh/dht096
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 4 October 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access: 5 October 2017

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