Territorial status in international law

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Table of Cases -- Table of Treaties and Statutes -- Table of UN Documents -- 1. Introduction -- I. Introduction -- II. State of the Art -- III. Objectives of the Book -- IV. Methodology: Doctrinal Research with Interdisciplinary and Comparative Elements -- V. Structure -- 2. The Concept of Territory in International Law -- I. Introduction -- II. Territory as a Socially and Legally Bounded Spatial Area -- III. The Entanglement of Territory, Jurisdiction and Statehood -- IV. Regulating Consequences of Exercising Factual Jurisdiction without Legal Title -- V. The Anachronistic Concepts of Territorial Acquisition -- VI. Conclusion -- 3. Statehood as Legal Status -- I. Introduction -- II. Rethinking the Statehood Criteria -- III. The Emergence and Existence of States -- IV. Territorial Illegality as a Limitation on Legal Neutrality -- V. The Independence Referendums -- VI. Territorial Illegality and Statehood -- VII. Attempts at Altering the Territorial Status: Contrasting Scotland, Catalonia, Crimea and Eastern Ukraine -- VIII. Detaching Statehood from the Statehood Criteria -- IX. Conclusion -- 4. International Legal Capacity: States, Non-States and Territories -- I. Introduction -- II. International Legal Capacity and Subjects in the International Legal System -- III. Attribution and the Territorial Structure of International Law -- IV. Self-defence and Non-state Actors: Back to Territorialism -- V. The International Legal Capacity of Territorial Jurisdictional Units without Statehood -- VI. Conclusion -- 5. States Beyond Statehood -- I. Introduction -- II. The Member States and Non-member Observer States without Statehood -- III. The State Requirement in International Treaties: The Procedural Approach -- IV. States, Countries and Territorial Entities.