
State Failure, Underdevelopment, and Foreign Intervention in Haiti
Jean-Germain Gros(Autor*in)
Routledge (Verlag)
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 21. September 2011
Buch
Hardcover
258 Seiten
978-0-415-89032-8 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Failed states are a huge problem in international relations, threatening world order in a number of ways. Conflicts in failed states often spill unto neighbouring states, failed states make for unreliable partners in the resolution of global social problems such as poverty and AIDS, and failed states magnify the effects of natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes.
In response to the multiple threats posed by failed states, working states, sometimes acting alone sometimes in concert with others, have undertaken military operations, often under the rubric of humanitarian intervention. 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.
In response to the multiple threats posed by failed states, working states, sometimes acting alone sometimes in concert with others, have undertaken military operations, often under the rubric of humanitarian intervention. 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.
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'This is a solid, important book...Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. ' - Choice, May 2012Weitere Details
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Academic and Postgraduate
Illustrationen
2 s/w Abbildungen, 2 s/w Zeichnungen, 13 s/w Tabellen
13 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 19 mm
Gewicht
529 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-89032-8 (9780415890328)
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Jean-Germain Gros is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Inhalt
1. Introduction 2. Making Sense of the Failed State 3. The Haitian Failed State in Historical Perspective 4. A 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