This paper contributes to the project of re-thinking in IR the grand-narrative of modern world history by highlighting race to be a core (but obviously not sole) constitutive element in the processes of modern world development. The purpose of the paper, in this respect, is two-fold: firstly, to help de-pathologise current mainstream investigations of the development/security nexus of the Third World and return it to historically and geographically holistic accounts of the making of modern world order, and secondly, at the same time, to critically underscore the limits of using dominant historical sociological grand-narratives, and their notions of "primitive accumulation", to effect this return. Rather than abstractly presenting a social theory of race in modern world development, or producing a grand-narrative of the period from European slavery and colonialism to the present, I focus on one central episode in this period: the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. For as the first sustained overthrowing of colonialism and slavery leading to the establishment of the first post-colonial, post-slaveholding independent state, the Haitian Revolution is, and should be, pivotal in any investigation of race as a core constitutive element in the development/security nexus between First and Third Worlds. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]