An end-of-decade diavlog

Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Monday, January 4, 2010 - 10:05 PM Share

Megan McArdle and I have a diavlog up at Bloggingheads.tv that is so 2009... mostly because we taped it on the last day or last year. We discuss the big stuff of the decade -- 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, the financial crisis -- and reflect on what, if anything, we learned.

One additional point that I failed to mention in the diavlog itself. While this was a bad decade for America, it was actually a pretty great decade for large swathes of the globe. China, Russia, India, Brazil, and much of sub-Saharan Africa recorded sustained levels of economic growth., for example.

I know that's little comfort to the unemployed in Ohio. My point is that the "good riddance" aspect to the end-of-the-naughts is hardly a global phenomenon.