The Military and Society in Haiti

ISBN-13: 9781349130481 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 223 str.

Michel S. Laguerre

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Civil-military relations; the army in the 19th and early 20th centuries; the Haitian army during the US occupation; the army as guardian and as ruler, 1934-1957; the army during the Duvalier era, 1957-1986; the Haitian military intelligence system; the professional soldier as a parasitic entrepreneur; coup d'etat - the collapse of the Manigat administration.