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Note publique d'information : "Margaret Moore attempts here to offer a comprehensive normative theory of territory.
The book provides an account both of the nature of rights to territory and of the
nature of the right-holder, considering the arguments that might justify state territory
as well as the appropriate relationship between the state, the people, and the land
implied by that justificatory argument. After setting out the basics of the theory
in the initial chapters, the author then compares her view to the main competing rival
views (cultural nationalist and statist) and explains how her view handles the issues
of boundary setting, corrective justice, natural resources, immigration and defensive
rights. The volume provides the reader with a clear sense both of the existing state
of the philosophical literature on territorial rights and of Moore's own views"--