Globalization and Developing Nations

April 27 , 2007
Charlottesville, VA

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Publications

Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy (2002)

Black Consciousness in South Africa (1986)

The Making of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's Passive Revolution, 1975-1985 (1987)

Predatory Rule: State and Civil Society in Africa (1992)

Co-editor with R. K. Ramazani of The Future of Liberal Democracy: Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World (2004)

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About the speaker

Robert Fatton Jr.
Julia A. Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs in the Department of Politics

Professor Fatton served as Chair of the Department of Politics from 1997 to 2004. He is the author of several books and a large number of scholarly articles. His publications include: Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy (2002); Black Consciousness in South Africa (1986); The Making of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's Passive Revolution, 1975-1985 (1987); and Predatory Rule: State and Civil Society in Africa (1992). He is also co-editor with R. K. Ramazani of The Future of Liberal Democracy: Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World (2004).

He just completed a book entitled: The Roots of Haitian Despotism, which will be published this summer. The book seeks to explain the historical and material roots of dictatorial regimes in Haiti.

Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, now an American citizen, Fatton studied in the mid 1970s in France, later earning a Bachelors Degree from Goshen College, Indiana, in 1976. He holds Masters and Doctoral Degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He has been teaching at the University of Virginia since 1981.

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