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The French arms industry has already known some periods of conversion in the fifties or after the end of the Algerian war. The “direction technique des armaments terrestress” (state’s ordnance, become recently “GIAT-INDUSTRIES”) closed seventeen bases from 1950 to 1971 (and a third of the number of employment opportunities has disappeared).
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See J-P HEBERT “Les ventes d’armes” (SYROS-Alternatives, Coll.Alternatives Economiques. Paris 1988).
See J-P HEBERT “Strategic Francaise et Industrie D’armement” (F.E.D.N./La Documentation Francaise. Paris 1991). Chapitre 7.
See L.TINSEAU “Rapport sur le Project de Programmation Militaire 1984–1988” (Assemblee Nationale 11 Mai 1983. Doc.No.1485) page 73.
NB effectifs des societes nonconsolidees.1) donnees non strictement comparables etant donne la filialisation des activites defense. Pour d’autres points de comparaison, voir J-P HEBERT “France: Ajuster le Poids des Armes” in “Economie et Humanisme” No.316 Janvier-Mars 1991.
nb: employment of society: non consolidated data. 1) data are not similar because Matra has put his defence activities in a subsidiary company. For other data See J-P HEBERT “France: Ajuster le Poids des Armes” in “Economie et Humanisme” No.316 Janvier-Mars 1991.
See in J.FONTANEL et J.ABEN (dir) “Economie de la defense” (ARES Vol.X11.1990–4. Decembre 1991) J-P HEBERT “L’effort Militaire Francais et ses Retombees sur L’economie”.
In 1983, nobody foresaw this evolution but an armament engineer wrote: “a trois cent mille, on tourne tant bien que mal, a deux cent mille, il faut songer a fermer boutique” F.VARENNE “Ventes d’armes: le juridisme et l’incantation” (PROJET No.177).
See in B.ADAM (dir) “Memento Defense-desarmement 1989” (GRIP. Bruxelles 1989): J-P Hebert “1993: LeGrand Marche del L’armement Redistributions en cours et bouleversements a venir” et B.ADAM (dir) “Memento difense-desarmement 1990” (GRIP Bruxelles 1990): J-P Hebert “Reorganisations dans le secteur de l’armement en 1989”.
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Hébert, J . (1992). Between Disarmament and Sovereignty? The Issue of the Conversion of Arms Industries/the French Example. In: Brunn, A., Baehr, L., Karpe, HJ. (eds) Conversion. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95701-7_4
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