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Summary:

This book is a historical study of state failure, underdevelopment and foreign intervention in light of the Haitian experience with all three. Its main thesis is that state failure has been a recurring feature of Haitian political life for much of the country's history, and this inability of the Haitians to craft a viable political order is at the heart of Haitian poverty and underdevelopment. Haitian state-making failure is underwritten by a complex array of deleterious local and external institutions, as well as natural constraints, including class, lack of elite cohesion, geography, population growth, the social origins of the Haitian polity, imperialism, and technology.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
• 2. Making Sense of the Failed State
• 3. Haitian Failed State in Historical Perspective
• 4. Rational-Choice Theory of Duvalierism
• 5. In the Spiral of Anarchy: Post-Duvalier Haiti and Foreign Intervention
• 6. Tectonic Plates, Anemic State
• 7. Remaking the (Haitian) Failed State: Theoretical and Policy Considerations.

Author/Creator:

Gros, Jean-Germain, 1964-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

State failure, underdevelopment, and foreign intervention in Haiti [by Gros, J.G.]

Related Series:

Routledge studies in North American politics; [volume] 4

Subjects:

Haiti — Politics and government

Failed states — Haiti

Economic assistance — Haiti

Technical assistance — Haiti

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

JL1090 .G76 2012eb

ISBNs:

9780203182703 (electronic bk.)
0203182707 (electronic bk.)
9780415890328 (hbk.) [Invalid]
0415890322 (hbk.) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

782918740

Other Control Numbers:

EBC958132 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp6935921