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Plunging Into Haiti
Ralph Pezzullo
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Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy
出版Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2006
主題History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Political Science / International Relations / GeneralPolitical Science / International Relations / DiplomacyPolitical Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American
ISBN16047353419781604735345
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ex-McfiTKWgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 peacekeeping troops to scotch plans and return to port. Less than a year later, for the first time in U.S. history, a deposed president of another country prevailed on the United States to use its military might to return him to office. These extraordinary events provide the backdrop for Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy mdash;Ralph Pezzullo's detailed account of the international diplomatic effort to resolve the political crisis.