Disturbers of the peace

The Spectator | December 14, 1996| | Copyright

In this space a year ago, under the heading `The secret peace', we argued that the world had never been so peaceful, but that for fear of sounding 'complacent' and for fear that some unforeseen great war might happen the world's eminences dared not admit it. Today's wars differed from those of the past in that they were unlikely to make the great powers come to blows. If anything, today's equivalent of the great powers were keen to stay out. We lived in Gibbon's age of the Antonines.

The reason is obvious and therefore to some people unpalatable: the supremacy of the United States. True, ...

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