[T]he civilizing mission is inherent... in the principal concepts and categories that govern our existence: ideas of modernity, progress, development, emancipation, and rights. The enormous task of identifying these biases and ridding the discipline of them continues, as does the related task of constructing an international law that fulfils its promise of advancing the cause of justice.
Anthony Anghie, Finding the Peripheries: Sovereignty and Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century International Law, 40 Harv. Intl. L.J. 1, 1999. (Quoted in International Law: Norms, Actors, Process, Dunoff, Ratner, Wippman.)
