Jean-Germain Gros

State Failure, Underdevelopment, and Foreign Intervention in Haiti

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a secular (i.e., historical) study of state failure, underdevelopment and foreign intervention in light of the Haitian experience with all three, examining the role of national and transnational institutions in the plenitude of their promises and shortcomings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415890328
• ISBN-10: 0415890322
• Artikelnr.: 31892888

Autorenporträt

Jean-Germain Gros is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Inhaltsangabe

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