TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - The end of the “French grandeur policy”
JO  - Defence and peace economics
A1  - Fontanela, Jacques
A1  - Hébert, JP
SP  - 37
EP  - 55
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 1024-2694
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10430719708404868
ID  - ref1
ER  -