Making and Marketing Arms : The French Experience and Its Implications for the International System

Edward A. Kolodziej

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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Year of publication:	1987
Authors:	Kolodziej, Edward A.
Publisher:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Subject:	Frankreich \| France \| Rüstungsindustrie \| Defence industry \| Rüstungsgüter \| Military goods
Description of contents:	Description [degruyter.com] ; Description [degruyter.com] ; Description [degruyter.com]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (556 S.)
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library ; 803
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	FrontmatterCONTENTSLIST OF FIGURESLIST OF TABLESPREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSABBREVIATIONSChapter 1. From the Beginning through the Fourth RepublicChapter 2. The Fifth Republic: National Independence, Military Autonomy, and a New World OrderChapter 3. Economic and Technological Incentives to Make and Sell ArmsChapter 4. National Champions and the French Fifth RepublicChapter 5. The Politics of Arms Transfers: The Arms Oligarchy and Democratic NormsChapter 6. The Nation-State System and Modernization: Drive Wheels of MilitarizationChapter 7. Arms Transfers as Aim and InstrumentChapter 8. Making and Marketing Arms: A Rational Strategy and an Irrational International SystemNOTE ON SOURCESAPPENDIX A: French Arms Exports by Regions, Countries and Major Weapon Categories: 1960-1983APPENDIX B: Selected Major Weapons Systems by Recipient Country: 1950-1983APPENDIX C: Major Conventional Weapons Systems Delivered to the Third World by Major Suppliers, 1972-1981APPENDIX D: Regional Distribution of Major Weapons Systems by Suppliers, 1972-1976, 1977-1981NOTESINDEX. In English
ISBN:	978-1-4008-5877-4 ; 978-0-691-60660-6
Other identifiers:	10.1515/9781400858774 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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