ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the international aid system in post-earthquake Haiti as a form of governance, considering the implications of its structural short-termism on human security. It provides a theoretical framework by exploring the implications of Zygmunt Bauman's concepts of Liquid Modernity for the global post-modern social contract. The chapter then looks at several examples of ways structural short-termism has played out in housing, education, water and sanitation, technology and volunteerism in Haiti. In late 2010, the water and sanitation crisis in Haiti was further compounded by the eruption of cholera in Artibonite department. The chapter also shows the reflections on how the liquification and informalization of the social contract eroded human security in Haiti. Locke argued that in a secure and stable society no one could 'by any pretence of superiority plead exemption' from their obligations to the social contract as codified in the law. There was no exit strategy from the state's responsibility to its citizens.
