Making and Marketing Arms : : The French Experience and Its Implications for the International System / / Edward A. Kolodziej.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Kolodziej, Edward A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 803
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (546 p.)

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.

Table of 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