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Led by the United States, the world is currently in the pax patrocinium, a Peace of Patronage.  The Peace of Patronage (PoP) is both an international relations theory and a grand strategy.  It is built upon an international security system in which a powerful state, the patron, partners with less powerful states, clients, to form a cooperative framework.  The PoP system provides a superior model to current realist strategies; it explains some lingering quandaries of the democratic peace theory and offers an analytical framework for foreign policy elites.  Using two contemporary case studies, the system's efficaciousness was tested.  Astonishingly, in all 330 events, clients of the same or allied patrons did not go to war against one another regardless of the clients’ or patrons’ type of government.  This outcome has profound implications for crafting a foreign policy that seeks regional peace.