The Security Trap

The gangsterization of Haitian society is, in reality, a form of barbarism that can only lead to a pariah country, to a lawless state.

Pierre-Raymond DUMAS
26 Feb 2026 — Lecture : 3 min.
The Security Trap

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The gangsterization of Haitian society is, in reality, a form of barbarism that can only lead to a pariah country, to a lawless state. The State does not exist without the monopoly—legitimate or not—of force; public authority, expressed through taxation and coercion, is its irreducible manifestation. If the quotation invoked here has remained so clearly etched in all academic memory, it is because, assuredly, nothing written by the German sociologist Max Weber (1) has illustrated it better, and at the same time more tragically br

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