Introduction: Absence of War or Enduring Peace? * Chapter I: Peace in South America: Norm, Anomaly or Historical Paradox? * Chapter II: Political Realism: Peace through Power? * Chapter III: Balance of Power, Empirical Findings and Peace* Chapter IV: U.S. Hegemony, Empirical Findings and Peace * Chapter V: International Liberalism: Peace through Principles? * Chapter VI: Democracy, Trade, Diplomacy and Peace: Empirical Findings * Chapter VII: The Military, External Peace and Internal Violence * Summary and Conclusions: Power, Principles or Militarist Peace? * Appendix A * Appendix B * Appendix C * Appendix D * Bibliography