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Re:Violence Has Not Been Declining Over Time by mamon on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @05:54PM (#13710038)
Pax Americana is kind of riddiculous name for the fact that US has started over 200 military conflicts since WW2. America is at war 93% of it's existence:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/america-war-93-time-2...

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Re:Violence Has Not Been Declining Over Time by oconnor663 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @07:17PM (#13710523)
To be fair, Pax Romana worked the same way right?
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Re:Violence Has Not Been Declining Over Time by avenius on Thursday February 23, 2017 @03:04AM (#13712406)
It did - while the inner parts of the empire were quite peaceful, there were still conflicts along the outer borders. Since there haven't been any wars on US soil for ages, calling it Pax Americana seems alright to me.
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Re:Violence Has Not Been Declining Over Time by taejo on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:43AM (#13714755)
> there haven't been any wars on US soil for ages

I think, to be meaningful, Pax Americana must refer to an "empire" larger than the territory of the United States. There hasn't been a war in Western Europe since 1945; the longest lasting war in South America was the Falklands War at 74 days.

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Re:Violence Has Not Been Declining Over Time by slededit on Thursday February 23, 2017 @07:42PM (#13719620)
You don't consider Columbia's conflict with the FARC a war?
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Re:Violence Has Not Been Declining Over Time by taejo on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:41AM (#13722534)
I meant to write "non-civil" or "international" war. Oops. I definitely had that in mind.
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