Making and marketing arms : the French experience and its implications for the international system / Edward A. Kolodziej.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolodziej, Edward A., author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military supplies--France.

Military supplies.

Military assistance, French.

World politics--1945-.

World politics.

Weapons industry--France.

Weapons industry.

Defense industries--France.

Defense industries.

Arms transfers--France.

Arms transfers.

Military weapons--France.

Military weapons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (546 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1987]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF TABLES

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

Part I. Arms and International Security

Chapter 1. From the Beginning through the Fourth Republic

Chapter 2. The Fifth Republic: National Independence, Military Autonomy, and a New World Order

Part II. Arms and the Welfare State

Chapter 3. Economic and Technological Incentives to Make and Sell Arms

Part III. Arms and the State

Chapter 4. National Champions and the French Fifth Republic

Chapter 5. The Politics of Arms Transfers: The Arms Oligarchy and Democratic Norms

Part IV. Arms and Foreign Policy

Chapter 6. The Nation-State System and Modernization: Drive Wheels of Militarization

Chapter 7. Arms Transfers as Aim and Instrument

Part V. Arms and Global Security and Welfare

Chapter 8. Making and Marketing Arms: A Rational Strategy and an Irrational International System

Appendixes

NOTE ON SOURCES

APPENDIX A: French Arms Exports by Regions, Countries and Major Weapon Categories: 1960-1983

APPENDIX B: Selected Major Weapons Systems by Recipient Country: 1950-1983

APPENDIX C: Major Conventional Weapons Systems Delivered to the Third World by Major Suppliers, 1972-1981

APPENDIX D: Regional Distribution of Major Weapons Systems by Suppliers, 1972-1976, 1977-1981

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographies and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691606606

0691606609

9780691635316

0691635315

9781400858774

1400858771

OCLC:

889252204