Haiti’s Flagging Transition

Issue Date October 1997
Volume 8
Issue 4
Page Numbers 94-109
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About the Author

Jean-Germain Gros, a native of Haiti, is assistant professor of political science and public-policy administration and a fellow of the Center for International Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is co-author of Political Transformation in Late Twentieth-Century Africa: Coping with Ambiguity.

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