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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Volume 35 - Winter 1993

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Research Article

  • Impact of Development on the Panama Canal Environment

  • Stanley Heckadon Moreno
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 129-150

  • The historical Chagres River Basin, which serves as the basin for the Panama Canal, extends some 3,260 kilometers in length and is not only the most important river basin in Panama but also one of the most strategic river basins in the world. Its two major lakes — Gatún and Alhajuela — function as reservoirs for the water needed to operate the inter-oceanic canal as well as to supply the water requirements of both Panamá City and Colón, urban concentrations that contain more than half the country's population.

    Gatún Lake was created in 1913, when the Chagres River was closed off at its Atlantic outlet, while the Alhajuela was created in 1934 by damming up the Madden River in the high, mountainous part of the country.

Book Reviews

Review Essay

Book Reviews

Research Article

  • The Security of Panama and the Canal: Now and for the Future

  • Max G. Manwaring
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 151-172

  • The old certainties of the Cold War, and the conventional attrition-type war implicit in it, have gone. In their place we now have a world of dangerous uncertainty and ambiguity in which old concepts of security are no longer relevant. The present security and future of Panama and the Panama Canal after the year 2000 is a case in point.

    This article will take a look at the issue of Canal security within the context of the contemporary “new world disorder” and develop the argument for a new approach to deal with current and future challenges to Panamanian and international security interests.

    The bottom line is this: the security of Panama and the Panama Canal — or any other point of strategic interest, now and for the future — will not depend so much on conventional military strategies as it will depend on international and domestic policies that provide for political stability, economic progress, and social justice.

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  • JWA volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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    02 January 2018, pp. f1-f6
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    02 January 2018, pp. f1-f4
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    02 January 2018, pp. b1-b4
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