ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents the complex nature of the process, and therefore the need for an integrated analytical strategy, can best be demonstrated by reviewing the participants and processes for Canal policy in terms of the conceptual model. It discusses the conflicting views held by treaty opponents and supporters concerning United States (US) interests, Panama, the Canal, the 1977 treaties and related issues. The book examines the DeConcini Reservation severely damaged US-Panamanian relations and required complicated negotiations, involving senate leaders as well as executive officials, to repair this damage and devise a non-intervention reservation for the Neutrality Treaty. National opinion surveys were commissioned by treaty opponents and supporters and by the Department of State. The treaty power is shared, under the Constitution, between the executive branch and the Senate.
