Abstract

GASPAR, Carlos. Revisiting Paix et guerre entre les nations. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2012, n.35, pp.05-22. ISSN 1645-9199.

Raymond Aron’s treaty is one of the three pivotal works that set the canon for the realist theory in international relations. The founding act of the realist school was performed by E. H. Carr’s The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919-1939, his manifesto against the idealistic utopias of collective security, yet the first step toward the elaboration of a theory was carried out by Hans Morgenthau in his Politics Among Nations, published in 1948. The ultimate - although conceivably not the last - effort in this direction was made forty years later, by Kenneth Waltz’s Theory of International Politics. Amidst the two, Paix et guerre entre les nations embodies the transition between the classical school, indebted to history, law and philosophy, and the structuralist avant-garde.

Keywords : Raymond Aron; Paix et guerre entre les nations; international relations theory; realismo.

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