It was because he believed that the mandate system had at least partially succeeded in this task that Rappard saw it as a model for the UN's new human rights project. In the subsequent years, as the drafting of the UDHR commenced, Rappard's lessons seemed to have been ignored by delegates who clashed over political and economic questions and challenged the civilisational hierarchies that motivated the mandate system. His model of the transnational moral authority of impartial experts from the Global North would have to wait several decades to be revived as the dominant model of international human rights activism. When a new generation of human rights NGOs emerged that wielded moral authority and expertise in the public sphere, they flourished alongside concerted attempts to bind postcolonial states to the interests of private capital.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 95