Territorial Rights
Territorial Rights (Law and Philosophy Library) Tamar Meisels,
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 140209261X
DDC: 340
Edition: Paperback; 2010-01
Summary:
Liberal defences of nationalism, prevalent since the mid-1980’s, have
largely neglected the fact that nationalism is primarily about land.
Territorial Rights examines the generic types of territorial claims
customarily put forward by national groups as justification for their
territorial demands, within the framework of what has come to be
known as ‘liberal nationalism’. "When it appeared in 2005,
Territorial Rights filled a void in liberal nationalist theory. In
this second edition, Meisels carries her subtle and systematic
thinking on the topic further, in part by deftly and constructively
responding to the literature that the first edition spawned."Allen
Buchanan, Duke University, USA "The question of who is entitled to
exercise jurisdiction over which land is of fundamental theoretical
and practical importance. It has, however, been neglected by
contemporary political philosophers. In her thoughtful and
stimulating work, Territorial Rights, Tamar Meisels provides a much
needed analysis of the normative issues involved. Territorial Rights
is a comprehensive, rigorous and illuminating analysis. It provides
both an evaluation of competing philosophical perspectives and a
defence of a liberal nationalist perspective on territory. In doing
so it includes instructive discussions of the implications of Locke's
political thought for territorial rights, and the continuing
relevance of historic injustices. It would be of interest to anyone
interested in questions of territorial rights (and indeed anyone
interested in issues of global justice more generally)."Simon Caney,
Magdalen College, Oxford, UK "Even the most cursory reading, of the
burgeoning literature on global distributive justice and just war,
reveals a growing appreciation of the foundational role that
territorial rights must play in constructing a coherent theory of
what nations owe to one another. Tamar Meisels provides us with a
challenging, comprehensive, and highly original analysis of how such
rights are constituted and the conditions under which they can be
justified. Those, like myself, who have advanced a purely
individualistic view of the basis of territorial rights, will have to
do some serious grappling with her many powerful arguments if they
are successfully to sustain that view."Hillel Steiner FBA, University
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