Peace and Democracy for Haiti: A UN Mission Impossible?

International Relations

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 153-174

  Von Einsiedel, Sebastian ^a   Malone, David M ^b  

^a International Peace Academy   (United States)

^b Foreign Affairs ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

democratization; economic sanctions; Haiti; Jean Bertrand Aristide; military intervention; peacebuilding; peacekeeping; Security Council; state building; United Nations; use of force

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248032415     PISSN: 00471178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047117806063846     Document Type: Article

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