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Discusses how the region's economies are being transformed;, priorities and interests of the major investors; 1990s. China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

'Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935' by David Nugent is reviewed.

Ropp reviews 'Nicaragua without Illusions: Regime Transition and Structural Adjustment in the 1990s' edited by Thomas W. Walker.

Examines the struggle in making the transition from authoritarianism to democracy and a capitalist economy, in light of transfer of the canal from the US to Panama in the year 2000. Some focus on Asian interests in Panama.

Examines the Torrijos-Noriega regimes, 1968-89.