Review of Nine, Cara, 'Global Justice and Territory', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. x + 192, £54.00 (hardback).

Abstract

Does the pursuit of ideals of global justice mean we must relinquish exclusive territorial rights and, in particular, exclusive resource rights? Cosmopolitans have assumed that it does. In this rich and thoughtful book, Cara Nine runs against the tide of much thinking on global justice and pursues the provocative suggestion that if we take territorial rights to be fundamental elements in a theory of global justice, then there will be circumstances where resource inequality can be justified. Nine does not so much deny the claims of global justice, as assert the centrality of territory in any theory of a globally just world.