Dominican Republic and Haiti: Country Studies

Haiti: Government and Politics
torship. Dupuy's more recent book, Haiti in the New World Order,
provides a detailed description and analysis of political developments
between 1986 and the late 1994 intervention and restoration
of the Aristide government, with a parallel analysis of
economic policies promoted and applied in Haiti during the
post-Duvalier era. Libete: A Haitian Anthology, edited by Charles
Arthur and Michael Dash, provides an insightful array of short
essays on Haiti and its political culture. Finally, the writings of
Jean-Bertrand Aristide offer many useful insights into Haiti's
political culture and its best-known contemporary political
leader. In the Parish of the Poor offers essays from the pre-presidential
era, whereas Dignity includes assessments from the
period of de facto rule and the author's restoration to the post
of president.
Several works focus more exclusively on the period of 1990-
94, covering Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government prior to the
military coup and the subsequent three years of de facto military
rule. The Haiti Files: Decoding the Crisis, edited by James
Ridgeway, compiles essays on the principal political players
both in Haiti and internationally, including the Haitian
diaspora. A number of its essays relate politics and government
to drugs, migration, and international assistance. Haitian Frustrations:
Dilemmas for US Policy, edited by Georges Fauriol, also
focuses on key political sectors, placing its emphasis on international
actors and their involvement in Haiti's political crisis,
and includes the texts of key political documents. Haitian
Democracy Restored: 1991-1995, by Roland I. Perusse, provides a
succinct description of developments during these crisis years.
Haiti Held Hostage: International Responses to the Quest for Nationhood,
1986-1996, by a team of researchers led by Robert Maguire,
places the 1991 military coup d'etat and period of de facto
rule in a broader perspective, examining both developments
leading up to it, and the role of international actors in the
period following the military intervention. It offers a concluding
chapter on lessons learned for future crises and interventions.
Although material on the evolution of Haiti's politics and
governance since 1994 exists principally in the form of individual
reports and articles, one published volume, Haiti Renewed:
Political and Economic Prospects, edited by Robert Rotberg, provides
analyses by leading scholars and several political activists
on an array of political and economic challenges confronting
Haiti and offers policy recommendations. The World Bank's
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