Make your predictions for 2009!!

Consider this an open thread for predictions of what will happen in 2009…. which movie will win Best Picture?  Which team will win the World Series?  Who will win the Nobel Peace Prize?  Which Obama cabinet member, if any, will step aside before the end of the year?  Looking back on my 2008 predictions, I ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast.

Consider this an open thread for predictions of what will happen in 2009.... which movie will win Best Picture?  Which team will win the World Series?  Who will win the Nobel Peace Prize?  Which Obama cabinet member, if any, will step aside before the end of the year?  Looking back on my 2008 predictions, I only batted .500.  Therefore, I'm not making any predictions for next year, except that this blog will cease to exist -- which is as predictable as saying that Gazprom will, like clockwork, cut off gas to a former Soviet republic in early January

Consider this an open thread for predictions of what will happen in 2009…. which movie will win Best Picture?  Which team will win the World Series?  Who will win the Nobel Peace Prize?  Which Obama cabinet member, if any, will step aside before the end of the year?  Looking back on my 2008 predictions, I only batted .500.  Therefore, I’m not making any predictions for next year, except that this blog will cease to exist — which is as predictable as saying that Gazprom will, like clockwork, cut off gas to a former Soviet republic in early January

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner

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