As the world globalizes, occasions for conflict grow exponentially. Yet each day, the world's 200 countries fail to start tens of thousands of possible wars, decline to seize each other's assets, and neglect to shoot down each other's satellites or to refuse incoming travelers, mail, or television signals. Most countries, most of the time, coexist without violence in an increasingly complicated, uncontrollable world.
Peace is, apparently, in their interest.
And it is a particular sort of peace, one that is governed by value-laden rules, not one enforced solely by coercion and fear.