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Pax Americana

Pax Americana proper noun: 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.

Proper noun

Pax Americana

  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.
    • 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”.2002 September 18, Jonathan Freedland, “Rome, AD… Rome, DC?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2022
    • 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.2022 February 21, David Leonhardt, “Why Ukraine Is Different”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2022
    Synonyms:
    long peace

Synonyms of Pax Americana

Origin of Pax Americana

From Latin pāx (“peace”) + Americāna (“American”) after the model of the imperial Roman Pāx Rōmāna and earlier British Pāx Britannica.

Questions about Pax Americana

What does Pax Americana mean?
Pax Americana means 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.
What part of speech is Pax Americana?
Pax Americana is a proper noun.

Words near Pax Americana in the dictionary

  1. Pawtuxent
  2. Pawtuxents
  3. pawty
  4. pawy
  5. pax
  6. Pax Americana
  7. Pax Augusta
  8. Pax Britannica
  9. Pax Judaica
  10. Pax Romana
  11. Pax Silica

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