Pax Americana

English Etymology From en la pāx peace + la americānus Americāna American after the model of the imperial Roman la Pāx Rōmāna and earlier British la Pāx Britannica. Proper noun 1 The period of relative peace in the Western world since the end of World War II in 1945, coinciding with the military and economic dominance of the United States. en long peace en http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/sep/18/usa.comment Jonathan Freedland Rome, AD… Rome, DC? 2002-09-18 w:The Guardian Earlier this month Boston's WBUR radio station titled a special on US imperial power with the Latin tag Pax Americana. Tom Wolfe has written that the America of today is “now the mightiest power on earth, as omnipotent as… Rome under Julius Caesar”. https://web.archive.org/web/20220315162553/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/sep/18/usa.comment en David Leonhardt Why Ukraine Is Different w:The New York Times 2022-02-21 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/briefing/ukraine-russia-war-pax-americana.html 0362-4331 A war like this — a voluntary war of aggression — would be a sign that Putin believed that Pax Americana was over and that the U.S., the European Union and their allies had become too weak to exact painful consequences. https://web.archive.org/web/20220428110118/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/briefing/ukraine-russia-war-pax-americana.html Coordinate terms See la pax#Derived terms pāx Translations period of relative peace in the Western world French: fr pax americana, fr paix américaine f Georgian: ka პაქს ამერიკანა, ka ამერიკული მშვიდობა German: de Pax Americana f, de pax americana f often in italics Japanese: ja パクス・アメリカーナ pakusu amerikāna Korean: ko 팍스 아메리카나 Spanish: es Pax Americana See also en rules-based order en 6-syllable words pseudo-loans from Latin en Geopolitics United States Peace Cold War