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

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"""Jonathan Brown has once again turned to challenge stereotypical understandings of Latin America in the world. This time he explores how Panama's Omar Torrijos engaged the United States in post-Vietnam, post-Nixon times, lobbying Jimmy Carter to claim control of the Panama Canal for his small and weak nation, furthering the Non-Aligned Movement in a world still shaped by Cold War tensions."" --John Tutino, Georgetown University"

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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.

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