This book, a critical study of Haiti's place in the "New World Order," examines the limits of its "democratic revolution" and the prospects for social change. Exploring why the successive military governments in power between 1986 and 1990 were unable to implement the neoliberal economic reforms sanctioned by the World Bank and USAID, Dupuy also an

Alex Dupuy is professor of sociology and dean of the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment Since 1700 (Westview, 1989).