France ranks as the world's third largest arms exporter and supplies arms and military technology to over a hundred countries. This book exposes the compelling aims and interests--national independence, security, economic welfare, foreign influence, grandeur--that explain the nation's successes in arms production and transfers.
Originally published in 1987.
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*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*LIST OF FIGURES, pg. ix*LIST OF
TABLES, pg. x*PREFACE, pg. xiii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xviii*ABBREVIATIONS, pg.
xxi*Chapter
1. From the Beginning through the Fourth Republic, pg. 1*Chapter
2. The Fifth Republic: National Independence, Military Autonomy, and a New
World Order, pg. 54*Chapter
3. Economic and Technological Incentives to Make
and Sell Arms, pg. 133*Chapter
4. National Champions and the French Fifth
Republic, pg. 211*Chapter
5. The Politics of Arms Transfers: The Arms
Oligarchy and Democratic Norms, pg. 239*Chapter
6. The Nation-State System
and Modernization: Drive Wheels of Militarization, pg. 299*Chapter
7. Arms
Transfers as Aim and Instrument, pg. 332*Chapter
8. Making and Marketing
Arms: A Rational Strategy and an Irrational International System, pg.
395*NOTE ON SOURCES, pg. 409*APPENDIX A: French Arms Exports by Regions,
Countries and Major Weapon Categories: 1960-1983, pg. 416*APPENDIX B:
Selected Major Weapons Systems by Recipient Country: 1950-1983, pg.
432*APPENDIX C: Major Conventional Weapons Systems Delivered to the Third
World by Major Suppliers, 1972-1981, pg. 436*APPENDIX D: Regional
Distribution of Major Weapons Systems by Suppliers, 1972-1976, 1977-1981, pg.
442*NOTES, pg. 447*INDEX, pg. 499
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