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

Edward A. Kolodziej

Princeton University Press, Jul 14, 2014 - Business & Economics - 546 pages

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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Contents

• Part II Arms and the Welfare State: 133
• Part III Arms and the State: 211
• Part IV Arms and Foreign Policy: 299
• Part V Arms and Global Security and Welfare: 395
• Appendixes: 409
• Notes: 447
• Index: 499

Bibliographic information

• Title: Making and Marketing Arms: The French Experience and Its Implications for the International System; Volume 803 of Princeton Legacy Library
• Author: Edward A. Kolodziej
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2014
• ISBN: 1400858771, 9781400858774
• Length: 546 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Industries / General; Business & Economics / Industries / Manufacturing; Political Science / General