ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the US intervention and the return to constitutional government represented a defeat for the antidemocratic forces because those events led to the exile of the coup leaders and, most important, to the dismantling of the Forces Armees d'Haiti. The theme of emergent atavistic, nationalistic, and fundamentalist regimes in the Third World that threaten fundamental Western values and norms of conduct runs through most post-Cold War US foreign policy debates. For the foreign policy intelligentsia, the defense and promotion of democracy and the free market serve as the "grander vision" underlying US policy objectives in the new world order. The world is truly unipolar: Only one superpower is hegemonic, and there are no longer some rival politico-economic systems competing for influence in different parts of the world. A state seeking to maintain or extend its hegemonic dominance cannot justify its power-projection on defensive and containment grounds only.
