Jure Vidmar is Chair of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

• 1. Creating a Territory: How a Geographic Area Becomes a Legal Concept2. Statehood as Territorial Status under International Law3. The Non-Territorial Definitions of the State4. The Territorial Status of Entities without Statehood

Jure Vidmar is Chair of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

• 1. Creating a Territory: How a Geographic Area Becomes a Legal Concept2. Statehood as Territorial Status under International Law3. The Non-Territorial Definitions of the State4. The Territorial Status of Entities without Statehood