A Political Theory of Territory
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 September 2017
- ISBN 9780190845797
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 231x155x20 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Margaret Moore offers a comprehensive normative theory of territory and provides an account both of the nature of rights to territory and of the nature of the right-holder.
MoreLong description:
Our world is currently divided into territorial states that resist all attempts to change their borders. But what entitles a state, or the people it represents, to assume monopoly control over a particular piece of the Earth's surface? Why are they allowed to prevent others from entering? What if two or more states, or two or more groups of people, claim the same piece of land?
Political philosophy, which has had a great deal to say about the relationship between state and citizen, has largely ignored these questions about territory. This book provides answers. It justifies the idea of territory itself in terms of the moral value of political self-determination; it also justifies, within limits, those elements that we normally associate with territorial rights: rights of jurisdiction, rights over resources, right to control borders and so on. The book offers normative guidance over a number of important issues facing us today, all of which involve territory and territorial rights, but which are currently dealt with by ad hoc reasoning: disputes over resources; disputes over boundaries, oceans, unoccupied islands, and the frozen Arctic; disputes rooted in historical injustices with regard to land; secessionist conflicts; and irredentist conflicts. In a world in which there is continued pressure on borders and control over resources, from prospective migrants and from the desperate poor, and no coherent theory of territory to think through these problems, this book offers an original, systematic, and sophisticated theory of why territory matters, who has rights over territory, and the scope and limits of these rights.
Moore's dense and rigorous critique of alternative theories of territorial rights will be of considerable value to scholars.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Why do we need a Political Theory of Territory?
Chapter 2: What is Territory?
Chapter 3: Foundations of a Theory of Territory
Chapter 4: Non-Statist Theories of Territory
Chapter 5: Functionalist/ Statist Theories of Territory
Chapter 6: Heartlands, Contested Areas Secession, and Boundaries
Chapter 7: Corrective Justice and the Wrongful Taking of Land, Territory and Property
Chapter 8: Territorial Rights and Natural Resources
Chapter 9: Territorial Rights and Rights to control Borders/ Immigration
Chapter 10: The Right to Territorial Integrity and the Legitimacy of the Use of Force
Chapter 11: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
