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Article title

Chute libre avant le décollage: le programme GVFA d'avion à géométrie variable franço-anglais, 1965-1967

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.3917/hes.104.0051

Title of journal

Histoire, Économie et Société

Article number

Volume number

2010

Issue number

First page of article

ISSN of journal

1777-5906

Year of publication

2010

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

Yes

English abstract

The 1967 withdrawal of the French government from negotiations on the Anglo-French Variable Geometry (AFVG) military aircraft programme cast a long-lasting shadow over armaments cooperation between Britain and France. This paper explores the reasons behind the collapse of those negotiations, illustrating the balance that sovereign nations have to strike between defending their own interests in joint projects and seeking mutual benefit from them and emphasising the impact of power asymmetries in the negotiations between the French and the British, and the escalating commitment of the British to what many observers saw as a failing course of action.