@article{ref1,
title="The end of the “French grandeur policy”",
journal="Defence and peace economics",
year="1997",
author="Fontanela, Jacques and Hébert, JP",
volume="8",
number="1",
pages="37-55",
abstract="The “policy of grandeur” was one of the main characteristics of French policy since Louis XIV. After World War II, France became a more modest State, but with de Gaulle and the Fifth Republic a new form of “policy of grandeur” was developed, based on nuclear deterrence, the importance of military expenditure, the independence of the national armament industry and arms exports. Since the mid-nineties, there has been a profound change of French defence policy, concerning the definition of means and the organization of armament production. European co-operation no longer appears as one option among others but as the only way out. For France, European co-operations is now placed at the centre of defence policy. The most important transformations in French arms production have yet to come.<p />",
language="",
issn="1024-2694",
doi="10.1080/10430719708404868",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10430719708404868"
}