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24 mar 2020 · Political philosophy has witnessed a recent surge of interest in territorial rights—what they are, who holds them, what justifies them—as well as in a broader theory of territorial justice, which situates said rights in an account of distributive justice, thereby addressing the scope of the rights. This interest is hardly surprising.
Here the object of study involves the norms and political practices that govern territorial rights, both inside sovereign jurisdictions and at large in global society. Examples are individualism, nationalism/national self-determination, and a statist/collectivist framework.
First, what is territory? Second, who or what is the bearer of territorial rights? Third, what grounds territorial rights? Fourth, what implications do theories of territorial rights have for global justice – specifically for self-determination, distributive justice, and the movement of people?
- Avery Kolers
In this chapter, I articulate the concept of territorial rights (the what) in terms used across many different theories of territorial rights, and I also set up a framework for addressing the kind of agent that may hold territorial rights (the who), which is pursued further in Chapter 3.
15 giu 2020 · Philosophical theories of territorial rights generally address three major issues: first, why states have (and should have) territorial rights; second, how we should determine which territory belongs to which state; and third, what the moral limits of the state's territorial rights are.
18 apr 2020 · This chapter explores and defends the territorial rights of states in an argument that is rooted in the value of collective self-determination. It offers a critique of rival values to explain territorial rights, and then explores the implications of that argument for defensive rights over territory.
Territorial rights can therefore be divided into three conceptually distinct types of rights: (i) rights of jurisdiction over a territory; (ii) rights of control over the borders that circumscribe this territory; and (iii) rights of control over the natural resources that lie within this territory.
