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...

Through a careful examination of French arms transfer behavior over the past twenty years, this article attempts to contribute to the development of a more open, accurate, and reliable system for collecting arms transfer data and for evaluating the military, political, economic, and...