Kantian Perspectives on Territorial Rights

Abstract

Territorial rights discourse is enjoying growing success among political philosophers. There is an increasing recognition of the importance of “territorial” considerations to a proper understanding of some of the key questions of political philosophy, ranging from sovereignty to property or freedom of movement. Among the different territorial approaches that have been proposed and developed, Kantian approaches seem particularly original and promising. One of the reasons for this has, for example, to do with the “global” and “provisional” character that Kant attaches to acquired rights (and hence to property and territorial rights), which can be seen as providing a much needed framework of justification that combines both spatial and temporal considerations. This panel invites papers that explore the distinctive contribution of Kantian political philosophy to territorial rights issues such as: How can territorial rights be legitimately acquired? How do territorial rights differ from property rights? What does a legitimate exercise of territorial rights consist of? Is the possession of territorial rights restricted to states or does it extend to other kinds of agents such as peoples or individuals? Under what conditions can territorial rights legitimately be lost or restricted? What has a Kantian approach to say on the right to control the natural resources or the borders of a given piece of land?

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