INTERNATIONAL WAR: DECLINE, CONSEQUENCES, AND �PAX AMERICANA�
Journal: Journal Of Global Strategic Studies
Year: 2021

The establishment and maintenance of any existing �world order� is primarily based on a general aversion to international war and does not depend on the United States. This perspective disputes two explanations that rely heavily on American activities. One contends that the United States, aided perhaps by the attention- arresting fear of nuclear weapons, was necessary to provide worldwide security and thus to order the world. The other contends that the United States was instrumental, indeed vit