 We can conclude this section by examining a view on which property rights in the natural resources of a country are held by that set of people who live within that particular country. This view is defended in Wenar (2015), who argues that it would be revolutionary—in our world, as it emerges from colonialism and imperialism—for us to regard the inhabitants of a given country as actually owning that country’s national resources. Wenar notes, as does Pogge, that our current global institutions allow—indeed, incentivize—bad governance, by encouraging malign agents to gain control of a coercive state and sell of the natural resources of that state. Wenar, however, grounds this not in a cosmopolitan vision of Rawlsian right, but instead upon a view on which the territorial goods contained within a country are owned by the inhabitants of that country. Those who would sell those goods without the consent of the people, then, are best understood as thieves—whether or not those thieves present themselves as the legitimate government of the society in question: