James Bond relies on a peaceful world.

Which is a strange statement to make, considering the amount of bloodshed that goes on in those movies but here I am saying it. Now, let me explain.

James Bond hardly ever takes on the real dangers of the world. He doesn't fight religious extremists, guerilla factions or whatnot. Even when you look at the films during the cold war era James Bond never truly fights the Russians. He fights corrupted Russians in From Russia with love (working for SPECTRE) and Octopussy (a power-hungry general). But never truly the Communists. More so, the understanding between Bond and the Russian boss of the KGB always remained rather cheerful -for example the ending of For your eyes only: "Now neither of us got it." Resulting in a laughing fit from England's mortal enemy.

So James Bond never really delves deep into the world's problems. It touches on it (e.g. the idea of paying for water in Quantum of Solace which happened in real life. Sufficient to say the people didn't agree with it.) but never fully 'take it on'.

So Bond-movies have to create their own villains. Naturally, for moviemakers, this is the safe bet. The villain -in this case- is truly a villain because they don't represent reality. But, by creating these villains -I argue- one can state that the fictional world Bond resides in is actually rather peaceful. The only extremists are the villains, nobody else. otherwise Bond would have been forced to focus his attention on that. He doesn't. Dressed as a duck in Goldfinger he detonates a villain's lair.

It's a black and white world and as such a peaceful world apart from the few random villains that go about firing laser beams.