
Gorbachev vs Putin (Podcast🎤)
Welcome back to our blog! We have made a podcast where we compare and contrast the strategic thinking of Gorbachev and Putin. This...
Could the Berlin Wall have been a Smart Border? (2/2)
In today’s world, technology has been argued by many as a more effective and cheaper way to secure a border than a physical barrier....

The Soviet-Afghan War
In this blog, I will discuss the Soviet-Afghan War and Mikhail Gorbachev’s effect on the War. I will then look into how war has evolved...

Bridging the Eastern-Western Divide
Before Gorbachev rose to the ascendancy of the USSR political machine, he was the leader of his home region – desperately rural...
Could the Berlin Wall have been a Smart Border? (1/2)
Source: (NATO, n.d.) After the end of World War II in 1945, the Allies split Germany into four “Allied Occupation Zones”. The Eastern...

How Information systems could have helped Gorbachev's decision making
Hello and welcome back to the blog! Throughout his career as a politician Gorbachev often saw his visions not fully come to fruition in...

Part 2: Human Rights - Gorbachev and Rights View
Today, Human Rights violations still occur every-day and in many countries around the world, Russia included. Human rights activists and...

How modern IS can enhance Gorbachev’s nuclear disarmament strategy (Part 2)
In my last post we examined Gorbachev’s nuclear deterrence strategy. Gorbachev saw how previous negotiation strategies of threats and...

Gorbachev’s nuclear disarmament strategy (Part 1)
Gorbachev had many strategic successes during his time in power, but I believe that his greatest success was how he handled the Cold War...

The Making of Gorbachev’s Strategic Thought Part 2: The Economic State of the Soviet Union
Since the 1950s, the USSR economy had been in steady decline, due in part to the Brezhnev period and his replacements, Andropov and...

Human Rights: Part 1 - Gorbachev's Views and Record
In 1985, when Gorbachev came to power, the country he took charge of already well established as one of the worst human rights violators...

Influence on the Media: Part 2
“From the beginning the priority assigned to science and technology by Gorbachev has been striking. Shortly before succeeding Chernenko...

Data Driven Policy and Decision Making
Hello and welcome back to the blog! Much of the content of this blog has looked at policies Gorbachev attempted to implement that were...

A Red Star Rises in The East, Pt. 2 - Gorbachev's Demise
In the first part of this blog post, I discussed Mikhail Gorbachev’s rise through the political system in the USSR from his origins as a...

How Gorbachev could have created openness and transparency using modern information systems
Hello and welcome back to the blog! Gorbachev’s policy of Glasnost has been mentioned in a few of the blogs that have been uploaded prior...
Chernobyl: An Internal Contradiction of Glasnost Strategy + A Look at Modern Covert Technology (2/2)
In today’s world, many would argue that the advent of the internet and other information systems has had a mostly positive impact on...

How Gorbachev created the world’s most unequal economy
During his time in power Mikhael Gorbachev took various strategic actions to democratise the Soviet Union’s political systems and opening...

How Gorbachev could've used modern technology to improve the implementation of his agrarian reforms
Hello and welcome back to the blog, today we are sharing with you a post done by the whole team which deals with the agrarian reforms...

The Development of Mass Surveillance in Russia - Would Gorbachev have been on board?
The Idea of mass surveillance encompassed the country after the communist revolution in Russia during 1917, when agencies such as the...



















