French public defence expenditure and procurement policy

Jacques Fontanel () and Jean-Paul Hébert
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble
Jean-Paul Hébert: EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales

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Abstract: France was submitted to a US embargo on strategic technologies and products, so had to create them alone. This capacity in turn gave France a strong position on export market, which constituted a necessary complement to a policy of national independence, after the withdrawal from the integrated NATO command and the search for self-sufficiency. Military budgets maintain a relatively high level of defence expenses after the USSR crisis. Form the French arms industry, arms exports become a more and more necessity in order to obtain some scales economies. Dual technologies and spinoff of military R&D was encouraged, such as the possibility of international cooperation on programmes, the development of offsets and the rule of "juste retour".

Keywords: Military expenditure; military procurement policy; arms industry; industrial military cooperation; France; Dépenses militaires; Politiques d’achats militaire; industrie d’armement; coopérations industrielles militaires. France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991-11
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Published in [Research Report] Eurostrategies, Brussels. 1991

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