1st Edition
State Failure, Underdevelopment, and Foreign Intervention in Haiti
By Jean-Germain Gros
Copyright 2012
258 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
274 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
258 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Jean-Germain Gros is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
'This is a solid, important book...Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. ' - Choice, May 2012
