State Failure, Underdevelopment, and Foreign Intervention in Haiti

Jean-Germain Gros (University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA)

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Routledge
21 September 2011

Globalization; International institutions; Political economy

Series: Routledge Studies in North American Politics

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.

By: Jean-Germain Gros (University of Missouri-St. Louis USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 4
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9780415890328
ISBN 10: 0415890322
Series: Routledge Studies in North American Politics
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 21 September 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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