ABSTRACT
A standard item that appears on applications for senior professorial status in the United States and the United Kingdom is a request for referees or other information to assist in evaluation of the international reputation of the aspiring candidate. For the most part, this is a pro forma query, one easily satisfied with an occasional essay in a foreign journal or a monograph translated into a foreign language. Michael Curtis has a remarkable appreciation of both the French and British traditions in intellectual history as well as international affairs. It is important to distinguish Aron's different approaches to the United Kingdom and the United States. It is clear that Aron granted high marks to the British tradition in political liberalism and social democracy. Aron's portrait of the United Kingdom is clearly sympathetic, but not uncritical. In some special way, the relationship between Melvin Lasky and Raymond Aron was unidirectional.
