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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826065803321

Autore

Dupuy Alex

Titolo

The prophet and power : Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the international community, and Haiti / / Alex Dupuy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4616-4536-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective

Disciplina

972.9407/3

Soggetti

Democratization - Haiti - History

Social change - Haiti - History

Haiti Politics and government 1986-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by Franck Laraque; Preface; 1 Globalization, the ""New World Order Imperialism,"" and Haiti; 2 Before Aristide: Class Power, State Power, and the Duvalier Dictatorships, 1957-1990; 3 The Prophet Armed: The Popular Movement for Democracy and the Rise of Jean-Bertrand Aristide; 4 The Prophet Disarmed: The First Lavalas Government and Its Overthrow; 5 The Prophet Checkmated: The Political Opposition and the Low-Intensity War against Aristide; 6 The Prophet Banished: The Second Overthrow of Aristide and the Pacification of Haiti

ReferencesIndex; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This compelling book offers a comprehensive analysis of the struggle for democracy in Haiti, set in the context of the tumultuous rise and fall of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Written by one of the world's leading scholars of Haiti, The Prophet and Power explores the crisis of democratization in a poor, underdeveloped, peripheral society with a long history of dictatorial rule by a tiny ruling class opposed to changing the status quo and dependent on international economic and political support. Situating the country in its global context, Alex Dupuy considers the structures and relations of