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Preferred term
Pax Americana
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- 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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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-CT75867S-Z
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