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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Edward A. Kolodziej

• FrontMatter,
• CONTENTS,
• LIST OF FIGURES,
• LIST OF TABLES,
• PREFACE,
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,
• ABBREVIATIONS,
• Chapter 1. From the Beginning through the Fourth Republic,
• Chapter 2. The Fifth Republic: National Independence, Military Autonomy, and a New World Order,
• Chapter 3. Economic and Technological Incentives to Make and Sell Arms,
• Chapter 4. National Champions and the French Fifth Republic,
• Chapter 5. The Politics of Arms Transfers: The Arms Oligarchy and Democratic Norms,
• Chapter 6. The Nation-State System and Modernization: Drive Wheels of Militarization,
• Chapter 7. Arms Transfers as Aim and Instrument,
• Chapter 8. Making and Marketing Arms: A Rational Strategy and an Irrational International System,
• 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,