Sooner rather than later, even old friends acting alone, or perhaps in concert with old foes, would find a way to "balance" a unilateral Pax Americana.

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The risk is that clumsy attempts to impose a regional Pax Americana would reconfirm suspicions that America is more interested in punishing Arabs than improving their lot.

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Four more years of relative and in some aspects absolute decline may not fatally undermine the Pax Americana that has kept the world at peace for an unprecedented eight decades.

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"With the rapid rise of other countries, the 'unipolar moment' is over, and 'Pax Americana' -- the era of American ascendancy in international politics that began in 1945 -- is fast winding down, " the report states.

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For want of a better term, such an environment might be called Pax Americana, a world order that has in the past proven much more secure and conducive to Western interests than that now being contemplated by Gen.

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