 Political philosophy has witnessed a recent surge of interest in territorial rights—what they are, who holds them, what justifies them—as well as in a broader theory of territorial justice, which situates said rights in an account of distributive justice, thereby addressing the scope of the rights. This interest is hardly surprising. The state is not simply a membership organization: it exercises authority over a geographical domain and this naturally gives rise to questions about how state authority over place can be justified, and how different claims to this authority can be assessed fairly. Moreover, many of the most pressing questions facing the contemporary interstate order are connected to territory—questions such as how to resolve disputes where more than one state makes claims to the same territory, how to draw boundaries in the case of secession or when borders are contested. Indeed, many of the major issues of the day—such as migration, resources and self-defense—have important territorial dimensions, so that a complete normative understanding of these issues requires a normative theory of territory. 