The Military and Society in Haiti [Paperback]

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.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.