The end of the “French grandeur policy”

Jacques Fontanela and Jean-Paul Hebert

Defence and Peace Economics, 1997, vol. 8, issue 1, 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.

Keywords: Military expenditures; France; Arms production; Nuclear forces (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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