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What the Haitian Revolution Might Tell Us about Development, Security, and the Politics of Race

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2008

Robert Shilliam
Robert Shilliam
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International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington
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There was a time when Western political science was somewhat sensitized to the historical perspective from which “exploited men” might view the making of modern world order. During the Cold War, and with the rise of the Non-Aligned Movement especially, debates in the Western Academy made regular reference to what might be called the “development/security nexus.” Many political scientists claimed that the peculiarities of “Third World” development could engender security threats for the “First World.” But it was further acknowledged that Third World politicians (especially at the Bandung Conference in 1955) could see their post-colonial development threatened by a West that, still exhibiting racial hierarchies domestically, might wish to retain these hierarchies internationally.2

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 778 - 808
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Copyright © Society for Comparative Studies in Society and History 2008

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