He was a professor of social An Uncertain Trumpet: Reason, Anarchy and Cold War Diplomacy in the Thought of Raymond Aron – Reed Davis, "An Uncertain Trumpet: Reason, Anarchy and Cold War Diplomacy in the Thought of Raymond Aron," Review of International Studies, v34 n4 (Oct., 2008): 645-668. The son of a Jewish jurist, Aron obtained his doctorate in 1930 from the École Normale Supérieure with a thesis on the philosophy of history. Recent interest in Raymond Aron has focused on his “Cold War Liberalism,” but he is neither a neo-liberal nor a Hayekian libertarian. Political expert Raymond Aron perfectly defined the Cold War system with a phrase that hits the nail on the head: ‘impossible peace, improbable war’. Aron's starting point is the state of nature that exists between nations, a condition that differs essentially from the civil state that holds within political communities. ARON, RAYMOND (1905–1983) BIBLIOGRAPHY. Yet, the acquisition of the nuclear weapon by the US in 1945 and the USSR in 1949 made «peace impossible, war improbable » (Raymond Aron). For more than thirty years, he … The International Order from Nazism to the Cold War. The Companion to Raymond Aron is an essential supplement to Aron's autobiography Mémoires (1984) and main works, exploring the substance of his political, sociological, and philosophical thought. What is the Cold-War? About the authors. Show all. During the Cold War, Raymond Aron was one of the main intellectual intermediaries of American cultural diplomacy in France. The Cold War finally came to an end in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe. There Is No Raymond Aron ‘Cult ... At the end of the war, Aron joined with Sartre in founding Les Temps Modernes, ... but the two men fell out when the cold war began. Although realist theory did not predict the end of the cold war, prominent realist scholars such as Hans Morgenthau, Raymond Aron and Kenneth Waltz did give some thought to the conditions under which the cold war might be settled. French philosopher and political commentator. Find The Century Of Total War by Aron, Raymond at Biblio. Aron was largely a “good soldier” of the Cold War-era French State, understood as an honorable and semi-autonomous member of the Western camp, and a part of the West-European pole of advanced industrial civilization, and was one of the most intelligent and insightful commentators within these bounds. Instead, this article will argue that Aron is a “Machiavellian” liberal – that his democratic theory is underpinned by an engagement with Pareto, Mosca, and Michels. Raymond Aron, French sociologist, historian, and political commentator known for his skepticism of ideological orthodoxies. During the Cold War, Raymond Aron was one of the main intellectual intermediaries of American cultural diplomacy in France. For more than thirty years, he actively participated in a number of interfering operations led by the United States secret services. Raymond Aron: The Making of a Cold Warrior By Stuart L. Campbell* DURING the years following World War II, Raymond Aron (1905-1983) emerged as France's leading thinker willing to challenge the leftist political attitudes that dominated the French intellectual community.