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Preferred term
Pax Americana
Definition
- Pax Americana (Latin for “American peace”) describes the absence of world-scale war as the United States emerged as the major economic, military, and political power in the world following World War II (1939–1945). The term is a play on Pax Romana, or Roman peace, used to describe a period of relative peace in the Mediterranean area in the early years of the Common Era. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Pax Americana]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Pax_Americana
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