The Military And Society In Haiti

Author : Michel S. Laguerre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0870497731

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The Military and Society in Haiti by Michel S. Laguerre Pdf

This book is a structural and hermeneutic analysis of civil-military relations in Haiti. The equilibrium theory of civil-military relations developed here postulates that the stability of a political system capable of preventing military intervention is the result of three sets of balanced relationships: those obtaining between the military and civil society, between the military and civilian government, and between the civil society and the civilian government. An unresolved conflict in one or more of the relationships is potentially capable of offsetting the balance of forces and leading to military intervention. This study clarifies our understanding of key issues that have plagued the political stability of the state. It shows that military intervention cannot succeed without civilian cooperation. The Haitian political system has evolved so that civil society increasingly has the means of forcing the military into the barracks. The ability to achieve this end depends on the political will of civil society to organize itself so as to fulfill its own democratic mission.

Author : Prosper Avril
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1581128363

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From Glory to Disgrace by Prosper Avril Pdf

Former President of the Republic of Haiti, former Commander-in-Chief of the Haitian Army, former scholar at at the US Marine Corps Schools (Quantico, VA), and the United States Naval Intelligence School (Anacostia, VA), qualified in law, career officer during 30 years which coincided with a deeply tormented period of national history, Prosper Avril brings the opinions of a privileged witness, a meticulous observer, an inquisitive researchist, and a leading actor to the debate about a subject that concerns all Haitians and creates much interest with foreign researchers, historians and observers -- the recent dismantling of the Haitian Army. From Glory to Disgrace: The Haitian Army - 1804, 1994 is an in depth study of the Haitian military institution, the oldest of Haiti, not viewed as a disjointed member of the Haitian social body, but rather as an integral part of a society which is in constant change. By undertaking this work, the author proposes answers to two fundamental questions: does the Haitian Army deserve the fate of its radical and final dissolution? is the future of Haiti secure without an army dedicated to the defense of the integrity of its national territory? By the wealth of its documentation and its close analysis of the events in which the Haitian Army has been involved, this book will certainly help the Haitian or foreign reader make a reasoned and impartial judgment about this important matter. In this work, the author maintains a commitment to one noble ambition -- to begin a patriotic and objective debate on one of the most controversial issues for Haiti today.

Author : Michel S. Laguerre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349130467

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The Military and Society in Haiti by Michel S. Laguerre Pdf

A structural and hermeneutic analysis of civil-military relations in Haiti. The equilibrium theory of civil-military relations developed here postulates that the stability of a political system capable of preventing military intervention is the result of three sets of balanced relationships.

Author : Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Haiti
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018413672

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Nation, State, and Society in Haiti, 1804-1984 by Michel-Rolph Trouillot Pdf

Author : Mary A. Renda
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0807862185

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Taking Haiti by Mary A. Renda Pdf

The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years--and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, Mary Renda shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of U.S. imperialism. At the heart of this emerging culture, Renda argues, was American paternalism, which saw Haitians as wards of the United States. She explores the ways in which diverse Americans--including activists, intellectuals, artists, missionaries, marines, and politicians--responded to paternalist constructs, shaping new versions of American culture along the way. Her analysis draws on a rich record of U.S. discourses on Haiti, including the writings of policymakers; the diaries, letters, songs, and memoirs of marines stationed in Haiti; and literary works by such writers as Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. Pathbreaking and provocative, Taking Haiti illuminates the complex interplay between culture and acts of violence in the making of the American empire.

Author : Toussaint L'Ouverture
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788736572

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The Haitian Revolution by Toussaint L'Ouverture Pdf

Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L’Ouverture’s profound contribution to the struggle for equality.

Author : Erica Caple James
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520947917

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Democratic Insecurities by Erica Caple James Pdf

Democratic Insecurities focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica Caple James explores the traumas of Haitian victims whose experiences were denied by U.S. officials and recognized only selectively by other humanitarian providers. Using vivid first-person accounts from women survivors, James raises important new questions about humanitarian aid, structural violence, and political insecurity. She discusses the politics of postconflict assistance to Haiti and the challenges of promoting democracy, human rights, and justice in societies that experience chronic insecurity. Similarly, she finds that efforts to promote political development and psychosocial rehabilitation may fail because of competition, strife, and corruption among the individuals and institutions that implement such initiatives.

Author : MARCUS. RAINSFORD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033190101

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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE BLACK EMPIRE OF HAYTI by MARCUS. RAINSFORD Pdf

Author : Brenda Gayle Plummer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820323824

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Haiti and the United States by Brenda Gayle Plummer Pdf

"Stressing the importance of domestic policy and the character of civil society in the formation of foreign policy, Plummer illuminates the various factors that figured in the relationship between the two countries throughout the nineteenth century. She discusses the aspirations of Haiti's founders in building a self-governing black society, Haitian responses to the transatlantic abolition movement, the development of Haiti's creole culture, and the country's shrewd negotiations with the United States over commercial and strategic issues. The late 1800s, Plummer shows, proved a turning point in Haitian-U.S. relations as Washington's assumption of regional hegemony changed the balance of power for a Haiti long committed to a multilateralist diplomacy." "In the twentieth century, tensions between traditional and reformist elements in Haitian society erupted in a crisis that brought U.S. intervention and long-term military occupation. Plummer examines the consequences of this intervention as they were incorporated into the later interactions between the United States and Haiti and shows how these troubled relations contributed to the rise of the repressive Duvalier regime. The recent fall of that regime, Plummer suggests, now presents the "psychological moment" to which Elihu Root referred so many years ago.".

Author : Kelly McCown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015039911212

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Silencing a People by Kelly McCown Pdf

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Author : Raphael Dalleo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 0813938937

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American Imperialism's Undead by Raphael Dalleo Pdf

Without acknowledging the significance of the occupation of Haiti, our understanding of Atlantic history cannot be complete.

Author : Jorge Heine,Andrew Stuart Thompson
Publisher : United Nations University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789280811971

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Fixing Haiti by Jorge Heine,Andrew Stuart Thompson Pdf

Haiti may well be the only country in the Americas with a last name. References to the land of the "black Jacobins" are almost always followed by the phrase "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere". To that dubious distinction, on 12 January 2010 Haiti added another, when it was hit by the most devastating natural disaster in the Americas, a 7.0 Richter scale earthquake. More than 220,000 people lost their lives and much of its vibrant capital, Port-au-Prince, was reduced to rubble. Since 2004, the United Nations has been in Haiti through MINUSTAH, in an ambitious attempt to help Haiti raise itself by its bootstraps. This effort has now acquired additional urgency. Is Haiti a failed state? Does it deserve a Marshall-plan-like program? What will it take to address the Haitian predicament? In this book, some of the world's leading experts on Haiti examine the challenges faced by the first black republic, the tasks undertaken by the UN, and the new role of hemispheric players like Argentina, Brazil and Chile, as well as that of Canada, France and the United States.

Author : Donald E. Schulz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1396890460

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RECONCILING THE IRRECONCILABLE: THE TROUBLED OUTLOOK FOR U.S. POLICY TOWARD HAITI. by Donald E. Schulz Pdf

Author : Raoul Bourdeau Altidor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Haiti
ISBN : 1643820710

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Haiti and the American by Raoul Bourdeau Altidor Pdf

"Consistent American intervention and imperialist foreign policy has cast a long shadow over the development and geopolitical context of the Caribbean and Latin America. In order to place the United States Occupation of Haiti (1915-1934) and the related historical dynamics in context, attention must first be focused on the nature of the United States interventions and imperialism in the Caribbean and South America. A broad scope is necessary to understand the involvement of the United States in Haiti as part of a larger pattern in the region. The experience of the neighboring Dominican Republic is closest to Haiti s regarding a parallel military presence" -- back cover.

Author : Julia Gaffield
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469625638

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Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World by Julia Gaffield Pdf

On January 1, 1804, Haiti shocked the world by declaring independence. Historians have long portrayed Haiti's postrevolutionary period as one during which the international community rejected Haiti's Declaration of Independence and adopted a policy of isolation designed to contain the impact of the world's only successful slave revolution. Julia Gaffield, however, anchors a fresh vision of Haiti's first tentative years of independence to its relationships with other nations and empires and reveals the surprising limits of the country's supposed isolation. Gaffield frames Haitian independence as both a practical and an intellectual challenge to powerful ideologies of racial hierarchy and slavery, national sovereignty, and trade practice. Yet that very independence offered a new arena in which imperial powers competed for advantages with respect to military strategy, economic expansion, and international law. In dealing with such concerns, foreign governments, merchants, abolitionists, and others provided openings that were seized by early Haitian leaders who were eager to negotiate new economic and political relationships. Although full political acceptance was slow to come, economic recognition was extended by degrees to Haiti--and this had diplomatic implications. Gaffield's account of Haitian history highlights how this layered recognition sustained Haitian independence.