Territorial Rights

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• Preface. 1. Introduction. 1.1 Liberal Nationalism. 1.2 Territorial Property and State Sovereignity. 1.3 Method and content. 2. 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. 3. 'Historical Rights' 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. 4. 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 Against. 4.5 The Case for Corrective Justice. 4.6 Concluding Remarks. 5. 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 Superseding Historic Injustice and Territorial Rights. 5.5 The Lockean Proviso. 5.6. Enough and as Good Left for Others. 5.7 The Lockean Proviso and National Self-Determination. 5.8 Why Does any of this Matter? 5.9 Concluding Remarks. 6. Efficiency. 6.1 The Efficiency Argument. Overcoming Some Basic Objections. 6.2 The Value of Efficiency. 6.3 Concluding Remarks. 7. Settlement. 7.1 Settlement and Self-Determination. 7.2 The Concept of Settlement. 7.3 The Ethics of Settlement. 7.4 The Lockean Element. 7.5 The Expressive Element. 7.6 Settlement in Disputed Territories. 7.7 Concluding Remarks. 8. 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. Conclusions. Bibliography. Index.