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 succ...

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