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“It was observed that so-called international law in those earliest times consisted of nothing more than an aggregation of practices devised by states to bring a modest degree of predictability to an essentially anarchic world.”
― Stephen C. Neff, Justice among Nations: A History of International Law

“But the difference is between those who believe that international law is best seen as a dispute-settlement system, resolving conflicts between independent and heterogeneous agents, as opposed to those who see international law as a vehicle for the advance of civilization, enlightenment, human dignity, and so on.”
― Stephen C. Neff, Justice among Nations: A History of International Law