Territorial Rights

Preface

Endnotes

Contents

Introduction

1.1 Liberal Nationalism

1.2 Territorial Property and State Sovereignty

1.3 Method and Content

Endnotes

Collective Rights

2.1 National Rights as Collective Rights

2.2 National Rights as Individual Rights

2.3 Individual Territorial Rights

2.4 Collective Territorial Rights

Endnotes

‘Historical Rights’ to Land

3.1 What are Historical Rights?

3.2 Preliminary Objections

3.3 From Time Immemorial

3.4 The Nation’s Cradle

3.5 Historical Ties and National Interests

3.6 Concluding Remarks

Endnotes

Corrective Justice

4.1 Initial Assumptions

4.2 The Question of Reparations

4.3 The Collective Nature of Territorial Entitlement

4.4 Territorial Restitution – For and A gainst

4.5 The Case for Corrective Justice

4.6 Concluding Remarks

Endnotes

The Supersession Thesis

5.1 The Argument from Supersession

5.2 Some Early Objections

5.3 Superseding Historic Injustice and the Lockean Proviso

5.4 Why Does any of this Matter?

5.5 Concluding Remarks

Endnotes

Efficiency

6.1 The Efficiency Argument

6.2 Overcoming Some Basic Objections

6.3 The Value of Efficiency

6.4 Concluding Remarks

Endnotes

Settlement

7.1 Settlement and Self-Determination

7.2 The Concept of Settlement

7.3 The Ethics of Settlement

7.4 Settlement in Disputed Territories

7.5 Concluding Remarks

Endnotes

Global Justice and Equal Distribution

8.1 Distributive Principles and Bilateral Relationships

8.2 Territorial Redistribution on a Global Scale

8.3 The Appropriate Subject Matter for Territorial Redistribution

8.4 A Liberal-Nationalist Approach to the Value of Territory

8.5 Concluding Remarks

Endnotes

Conclusions

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index