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Aron, Raymond.On War. Translated by Terence Kilmartin. New York: Norton, 1968.
Aron, Raymond.Introduction to the Philosophy of History: An Essay on the Limits of Historical Objectivity. Translated by George J. Irwin. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1976. (Originally published in 1961.)
Aron, Raymond.The Opium of the Intellectuals. Translated by Terence Kilmartin. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1977.
Aron, Raymond. InDefense of Decadent Europe. Translated by Stephen Cox. Chicago: Regnery, 1979.
Aron, Raymond.The Century of Total War. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1981. (Originally published in 1954.)
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He was the founding editor of The Washington Quarterlyand is currently completing a book on postwar European Communism. He has written extensively on European and Middle Eastern affairs for The New Republic, Commentaryand Society.
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Ledeen, M.A. Raymond Aron: The outsider as outsider. Soc 21, 58–62 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695103
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