Keeping the Peace

Abstract

With the United States as the only surviving superpower, is there a prospect of a ‘Pax Americana’ comparable to the ‘Pax Britannica’ of the nineteenth century?1 The USA, while militarily and technologically supreme, no longer dominates the world economically. The European Community in 1991 already had a bigger population (320 million) and an industrial base 25 per cent larger than the USA. The EC is operating as an economic union even though not yet as a political one. If later joined by Austria, the Scandinavian countries and by some of the Central and East European countries, its population will exceed 400 million.KeywordsDisaster ReliefEast European CountryKhmer RougeAlly ForceSpecial EnvoyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.