The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Honors College Spring 5-2021 The One-Eyed Man and the Wicked Boar Iaryna Iasenytska Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors Part of the International and Area Studies Commons, International Relations Commons, and the Political Theory Commons This Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors College by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE ONE-EYED MAN AND THE WICKED BOAR by Iaryna Iasenytska A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for a Degree with Honors (International Affairs) The Honors College The University of Maine May 2021 Advisory Committee: Kristin Vekasi, Professor of Political Science and School of Policy & International Affairs, Advisor Robert Ballingall, Assistant Professor of Political Science Robert Glover, Associate Professor of Political Science & Honors Lora Pitman, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science Stefano Tijerina, Lecturer in Management ©2021- Iasenytska All Rights Reserved ABSTRACT This thesis examines territorial authoritarian threats to the Western world through an examination of historical and contemporary case studies. The historical examples used in this thesis are from Eastern Europe, since it had many chances to engage in international law with the authoritarian state, leading its people to understand the nature of one of the oldest authoritarian states: Russia. The four case studies used are: 1) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918), 2) Soviet Invasion of Poland (1939-1940), 3) Soviet Occupation of Baltic states (1939-1945), and 4) Russian Annexation of Crimea (2014).