Michel S. Laguerre

The Military and Society in Haiti

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-13048-1
• 1st ed. 1993
• Seitenzahl: 223
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9781349130481
• ISBN-10: 1349130486
• Artikelnr.: 44460454

Inhaltsangabe

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.