International law codified the right of ‘advanced’ powers to annex ‘uncivilized’ regions

Evidence

John Westlake’s Chapters on the Principles of International Law (1894) argues, for example, that regions of the earth designated as “uncivilized” (a word carrying the freight of Orientalist assumptions, among others) ought to be annexed or occupied by advanced powers. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 515

Categorization

• XREF: Grounds the reader’s later Islamophobia work on how legal categories encode imperial assumptions — parallels found in contemporary security-law literature.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 515