By Robert I. Rotberg
The election of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1990, his American-supported recovery to workplace in 1994, and the peaceable election in 1995 of President Rene Preval have been harbingers of a extensively new and promising period in Haitian political and monetary lifestyles. With a five-year presidency, Preval now has the chance to reconstruct and remold the Haitian kingdom, to elevate Haitian dwelling criteria, and to create a brand new political tradition of democracy and tolerance. the way forward for his state and the good fortune of Haiti's final most sensible likelihood to damage its chains of poverty, desperation, and deprivation rely on the alternatives that he and his colleagues make within the months forward. This publication presents an schedule for Preval and his successors, person who examines Haiti's political tradition - its ancient legacy and what that implies for destiny reconstruction - and lots of of its most important political, financial, and social demanding situations.
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But, unlike other emerging democracies, the Haitian state did not achieve a social contract that could produce a sense of national unity. Instead, in nineteenth-century Haiti, elites reacted to the rise of the peasantry not with a package of social benefits that would have led the majority to believe that they were indeed in the same boat as the elites, but with a form of social apartheid. Elites believed that they could survive even if the majority did not. Thus, a sense of sameness across class linesa sense of nationhoodwas never achieved in Haiti.
Prou 215 About the Authors 229 The World Peace Foundation 233 Index 235 Page vii Preface Haiti's Last Best Chance Robert I. Rotberg The ecstatic election of charismatic President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1990, his American-supported restoration to office in 1994, and the peaceful election in 1995 of President René Préval collectively were harbingers of a radically new and promising era in Haitian political and economic life. For the first time in Haiti's 190-year-old independent tradition, men of and chosen by the majority of Haiti's people had gained power and attained their positions legally and peacefully.
5. , World Resources: A Guide to the Global Environment(New York, 1996), 197. 6. United Nations, Yearbook; Caribbean Insight, XIX (April 1996), 8. For the 1970 figure, see Rotberg, Haiti, 11. 7. IDA memorandum. Some of the IDA and World Bank figures do not agree with the estimates employed at the World Peace Foundation's 1995 conference or with the numbers used in Jennifer McCoy's introduction (originally the report of the conference). Page xiii 8. Statistical Abstract of Latin America (Los Angeles, 1995), XXXI, table 824; Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Haiti (London, 1995), 37.