Dominican Republic and Haiti: Country Studies

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Dominican Republic and Haiti: Country Studies
Beginning with President Fernandez, awareness has grown
in the Dominican Republic that maintaining an informed role
in world affairs is crucial to helping the country confront the
challenges it faces in an increasingly globalized world. The
Dominican Republic's global outlook is facilitated by the extent
of contact that broader elements of the Dominican population
have with that world through family members who have emigrated
abroad, tourism, the media, and travel.
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Many useful books are available on the government and politics
of the Dominican Republic. On the formative Trujillo era,
see Jesus Galindez's The Era of Trujillo, the excellent biography
by Robert Crassweller entitled Trujillo, and Howard J.
Wiarda's
Dictatorship and Development: The Methods of Control in Trujillo'
Dominican Republic. Post-Trujillo developments are treated in
detail in John Bartlow Martin's Overtaken by Events, and Howard
J.
Wiarda's three-volume Dictatorship, Development, and Disintegration:
Politics and Social Change in the Dominican Republic. The
1965 revolution and intervention are well covered in Piero
Gleijeses's The Dominican Crisis, Dan Kurzman's Santo Domingo:
Revolt of the Damned, Abraham Lowenthal's The Dominican Intervention,
and Jerome Slater's Intervention and Negotiation: The
United States and the Dominican Republic.
For the Balaguer era of the 1960s and 1970s, see G. Pope
Atkins's Arms and Politics in the Dominican Republic, Ian Bell's The
Dominican Republic, Rosario Espinal's "An Interpretation of the
Democratic Transition in the Dominican Republic," and
Howard J.
Wiarda and Michael J.
Kryzanek's The Dominican
Republic: A Caribbean Crucible. More recent developments are
analyzed in Jan Knippers Black's The Dominican Republic: Politics
and Development in an Unsovereign State, James Ferguson's The
Dominican Republic: Beyond the Lighthouse, a special issue of the
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Report
on the Americas entitled "The Dominican Republic After the
Caudillos," Jonathan Hartlyn's The Struggle for Democratic Politics
in the Dominican Republic, and Rosario Espinal and Jonathan
Hartlyn's "The Dominican Republic: The Long and Difficult
Struggle for Democracy." (For further information and complete
citations, see Bibliography.)
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