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19 - Business and Management Studies
University of Manchester
Chute libre avant le décollage: le programme GVFA d'avion à géométrie variable franço-anglais, 1965-1967
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.