  Third, it should explain which groups are connected, in which ways, to which territories. That requires offering principles to guide the drawing of boundaries and to adjudicate disputes over boundaries. Finally, it would need to have a theory of what kind of agent has rights over territory (a nation? – as in Miller’s (2007) theory; an ethno-geographic group? as argued by Kolers (2009); a people? as in Moore (2015) and Stilz (2019)) and how these groups relate to the state.