Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the defeat of diplomacy
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1. Verfasser: Pezzullo, Ralph (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson University Press of Mississippi 2006
Ausgabe:1st ed
Schriftenreihe:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Beschreibung:"An ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-304) and index
Clinton's pledge -- Welcome to Haiti -- From slavery to independence -- Working with the UN -- Early U.S.-Haitian relations -- UN sanctions -- The first U.S. occupation -- Governors Island -- The fall of Baby Doc -- The New York pact -- The rise and fall of Aristide -- Reconciliation -- Prime Minister Malval -- Steps toward Aristide's return -- The Harlan County incident -- Dissension in Washington -- The resignation of Malval -- The parliamentarians' plan -- President Clinton changes policy -- Carter/Powell/Nunn -- History repeats itself
For much of the early 1990s, Haiti held the world's attention. A fiery populist priest, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was elected president and deposed a year later in a military coup. Soon thousands of desperately poor Haitians started to arrive in makeshift boats on the shores of Florida. In early 1993, the newly elected Clinton administration pledged to make the restoration of President Aristide one of the cornerstones of its foreign policy. But that fall the U.S. let supporters of Haiti's ruling military junta intimidate America into ordering the USS Harlan County and its cargo of UN peacekeepin
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ISBN:9781604735345
1604735341
1578068606
9781578068609
1282940821
9781282940826

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