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) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)