International law’s sovereign-state frame structurally excluded non-Europeans

Evidence

What happened, in broad outline, was that international law became a matter of relations between sovereign states, and such sovereignty was intrinsically contrasted to certain uncivilized others excluded from participation in international law. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 224

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels vault material on how legal personhood and the ‘unrecognized’ other get constructed inside supposedly neutral frameworks.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 224