ABSTRACT
Nowadays North America has a justified reputation as a region of peace. North America’s record of regional peace is longer than even post-1945 Western Europe, with no interstate war since 1867 and no conflict of any kind since 1930. 1 Likewise, warfare between the regional states, or even threats of use of force, have become ‘inconceivable’ outside, perhaps, of the fiction section in the local bookstore (Roussel 2004: 1; Mares 1996: 23–24). Indeed, North America has become so peaceful that it is completely left out many times of scholarly monographs dealing with regional security (Buzan and Weaver 2003: 268).
