Giancarlo Soler Torrijos is the Deputy Ambassador of Panama to the United Nations, New York. He holds his Bachelor"s Degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Oxford University, England. Before his appointment as a diplomat, he taught at the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico. His writings have received several awards and prizes, among them from the Buenos Aires daily La Nacion and from the State of Quintana Roo in Mexico. His most recent publication is A la Sombra de Estados Unidos, in which some of the ideas laid out in this book were first developed in essay form. Previously, he published a book on the U.S. intervention of Panama.