During its history, Britain invaded the territory of more than 170 countries, equivalent to almost 90% of the world.

Though it takes its name from the Pax Romana of the first and second centuries and the Pax Britannica of the 19th, Pax Americana was something different: The application of American power for the ...

On the other hand, previous world orders have not been truly hegemonic. Pax Britannica did not encompass the entire world. Nor did Pax Americana, which didn’t include China, India, the former ...

Global hegemony Historian Niall Ferguson wrote a landmark article in Bloomberg in January 2024 on how Pax Britannica morphed smoothly into Pax Americana in the early 1900s and why American global ...

Pax Britannica, and Pax Americana, denoting Rome, Britain and America. These eras were defined by economic and military supremacy upholding a stable international order. The post-World War II ...

This “Pax Americana” — characterized by relatively stable international relations, expanding global trade, unprecedented prosperity and the absence of great-power conflict — is abruptly ...