Previously published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1966. [1st ed.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Theory. Strategy and diplomacy, or on the unity of foreign policy; Power and force, or on the means of foreign policy; Power, glory and idea, or on the goals of foreign policy; On international systems; On multipolar systems and bipolar systems; Dialectics of peace and war -- pt. 2. Sociology. On space; On number; On resources; Nations and regimes; In search of a pattern of change; The roots of war as an institution -- pt. 3. History. Le monde fini, or the heterogeneity of the global system; On the strategy of deterrence; Les grands fr'eres, or diplomacy within the blocs ; Stalemate in Europe, or diplomacy between the blocs; Persuasion and subversion, or the blocs and the non-aligned nations; The enemy partners -- pt. 4. Praxelogy. In search of a morality : 1.: Idealism and realism: In search of a morality : 2. Conviction and responsibility; In search of a strategy: 1. To arm or disarm?; In search of a strategy: 2. To survive is to conquer; Beyond power politics: 1. Peace through law; Beyond power politics: 2. Peace through empire; Rational strategy and reasonable policy.

French political and theorist Aron (1905-83) published Paixe guerre entre les nations in 1962 in Paris to clarify and transcend the debate between rational schematics and sociological perspectives in the discipline of international relations, by arguing that the two are not contradictory but complementary. The 1966 English translation was published by Doubleday, New York. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Translated from the French.