McG Comparative Government

Roger Cohen, an opinion writer for the New York Times, wrote an interesting piece today on tensions within the E.U. today. He finds commonality between Europe in 2010 and the United States in the years immediately after the ratification of the Constitution in 1787. In both cases, you are looking at a group of independent [...]

A violent rivalry-based fight broke out in a Mexican prison this week, and at least 23 inmates were killed. This bloody outbreak took place in Durango, a northern state that witnesses a lot of drug related violence as it is the battleground for two competing cartels: the group led by Joaquin Guzman, the most powerful [...]

Nigeria Rebels ‘Attack Pipeline’ Summary             Nigerian militants claim that they have recently destroyed an oil pipeline important to the companies of Shell and Chevron as a “warning strike” to the Nigerian Government for delaying improvements of better oil distributions to the local Niger Delta communities, yet there is no clear evidence if the event [...]