long peace

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Etymology

Described by American military historian John Lewis Gaddis in The Long Peace (1987).

Proper noun

the long peace

  1. Synonym of Pax Americana
    • 2021 November 7, Laura Spinney, “Can history teach us anything about the future of war – and peace?”, in The Guardian:
      But among his critics are those who say that warfare between modern nation states, which are only a few hundred years old, has nothing in common with conflict before that time, and therefore it’s too soon to say if the supposed “long peace” we’ve been enjoying since the end of the second world war is a blip or a sustained trend.

Noun

long peace (uncountable)

  1. A long period without war.

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