"territorial state" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a region over which a particular government has authority. For example, "The territorial state of Saudi Arabia is composed of numerous provinces."
The analogy between an animal territory and a territorial state is obviously extremely tenuous.
"However, international law is equally clear that this prohibition does not apply to the use of military force by one state on the territory of another if the territorial state so requests or consents.
Liberalism (unlike cosmopolitanism) accepts the primacy of the territorial state in both domestic and world politics.
They were aimed at the consolidation of conditions resulting from the transformation of a small city-state into a large territorial state.
Although liberals see the territorial state as the fundamental organizing unit of politics, they believe conflict between states can be mediated by international institutions.
We are making progress in only the territorial state and its conventional military capacity, not the other three dimensions: insurgency, terrorism, and ideology.
They resembled the type of "territorial states" they preyed upon.
Presented in this way, nationalism can be used to legitimize, or justify, the existence and activities of modern territorial states.
Territorial states grew, and their urban capitals dominated neighbouring rural hinterlands even more than in previous decades.
Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states.
The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development.
