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Alexandru Balas, International Studies Department and director of the Clark Center for International Education, had his book, The Puzzle of Peace. The Evolution of Peace in the International System, published in February by Oxford University Press. The book is co-authored with Gary Goertz and Paul Diehl. The Puzzle of Peace moves beyond defining peace as the absence of war and develops a broader conceptualization and explanation for the increasing peacefulness of the international system. The authors track the rise of peace as a new phenomenon in international history starting after 1945.