This edited collection offers a synthetic approach to Raymond Aron's theory of International Relations by bringing together some of the most prominent specialists of Raymond Aron, thus filling an important gap in the current market of books devoted to IR theories and the historiography of the field.

Olivier Schmitt is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark, and the scientific director of the French Association for War and Strategic Studies (AEGES). His work focuses on International Relations theories, strategic studies and contemporary warfare.

Introduction (Olivier Schmitt) 1 : The Classical Foundations of Raymond Aron's Theory of International Relations (Bryan-Paul Frost) 2 : Pilgrims' Progress: The Disenchanted Destinations of Raymond Aron and Georges Canguilhem (Reed M. Davies) 3: A Theory of International Relations or a theory of foreign policy? Reading Peace and War Amongst Nations (Olivier Schmitt) 4 : Aron's Oxymorus International Ethics (Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer) 5 : Raymond Aron, War And Nuclear Weapons: The Primacy Of Politics Paradox (Christian Malis) 6 : Raymond Aron and the Idea of Europe (Joël Mouric) 7 : Beyond Soviet and American Models of Industrialization: Aron's Third Way Approach to Global Development (Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins) 8 : Raymond Aron's heritage for the International Relations discipline: The French school of sociological liberalism (Thomas Meszaros and Anthony Dabila) 9: Raymond Aron and the ethics of current global affairs (Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia) 10: The Diplomat, the Soldier, and the Spy: towards a new taxonomy in International Relations (Olivier Chopin)