In August, Foreign Policy analyst and blogger David Rothkopf compiled a list of 10 Events More Important Than 9/11 in the Past Decade. Hist list?
10. “The American response to 9/11 … [which] was both vastly bigger in scope and in consequence than the events that triggered it.”
9. “The ‘Arab Spring,’ … [It has] “toppled more governments in the region than either al-Qaida or the United States could.”
8. Asia’s “rebalancing … [which includes] the U.S. embrace of India.”
7. “The stagnation of the U.S. and other developed-world economies.”
6. “The invention of social media.”
5. “The proliferation of cell phones and hand-held computing devices.”
4. Wall Street’s “crash of 2008.”
3. “The Eurozone crisis and the crash of 2011-2012.”
2. A “failure to address global warming.”
1. “The rise of China and the other BRICs [Brazil, Russia, India and other emerging markets].”
