French Arms Exports and Intrastate Conflicts: An Empirical Investigation

Fauconnet, Cécile; Malizard, Julien; Pietri, Antoine

doi:10.1080/10242694.2018.1488371

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“…To support the claim that arms export control processes are overall successful, one would need to either demonstrate that the authorisation of arms sales helped stabilise a national or regional conflict situation or produce examples of export restraint when there was an opportunity to sell weapons but doing so would have had destabilising effects. Fauconnet et al (2019) demonstrated that French arms exports were negatively related to the intensity of intrastate conflicts from 1992 to 2014. However, these conclusions would arguably no longer stand when looking at the past decade and considering broader armed conflict (including asymmetric) and regional instability.…”

Section: Narratives That Appear Particularly Faulty In Conflict Casesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unpacking the storytelling around French arms sales: Demystifying the “strategic autonomy” argument

Soubrier

2023

Global Policy

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This article looks at the way France's arms exports have historically been framed as an inherent part of the country's core policies to achieve “strategic autonomy” at the domestic and international levels. It posits that taking this argument for granted without subjecting it to critical scrutiny is hazardous because it enables the continued unquestioned support for French arms sales and hampers the development of more stringent export control processes. Today, the need to look beyond this blanket storytelling is heightened in a context where unchecked exports relying on outdated views of global dynamics have precisely started to undermine France's strategic autonomy and interests. Not only does the country's growing dependence on exports create an antinomy of arms sales as a means of strategic independence, but the phenomenon of clients' reverse influence onto suppliers amidst a consolidated buyer's market also calls into question the autonomy of France's foreign policy.

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Section: Narratives That Appear Particularly Faulty In Conflict Casesmentioning

confidence: 99%