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Diplomacy in Europe: 1689-1789 explores not just with the complexity of relationships which characterised this era, but additionally with the altering standards upon which such relationships have been dependent. rather than the main suggestion of dynasticism which had ruled the sooner interval, principles of collective defense and cause of country started to impression the considering and activities of rulers and their ministers. The rising amorality of diplomacy used to be epitomized within the walls of Poland over the last 3rd of the 18th century, and Poland

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Instead, he relies on the notion of "credible commitments" to explain under what conditions national governments agree to "pool" or "delegate" sovereignty (Moravcsik 1998, 73-77). 5. The Amsterdam Treaty (1999) strengthens majority voting in the European Union's common foreign and security policy (CFSP), creates a High Representative for the CFSP, and sets up a supranational unit for foreign policy analysis-the Policy Planning and Early Warning Unit. The latter unit pools expertise from the Commission, the Council secretariat, the member states, and the Western European Union (Peterson and Bomberg 1999).

3). Community institutions that try to challenge member states do not get very far: "As for the common organs set up by the national governments, when they try to act like a European executive and parliament, they are both condemned to operate in the fog maintained around them by the governments and slapped down if they try to dispel the fog and reach the people themselves" (Hoffmann 1966, 910). One contribution of liberal institutionalism, and of Andrew Moravcsik's work in particular, lies in the attempt to specify the conditions under which "international cooperation ...

Is that the EC can be analysed as a successful intergovernmental regime designed to manage economic interdependence through negotiated policy coordination.... An understanding of the preferences and power of its member states is a logical starting point for analysis" (Moravcsik 1993,474). This approach allows that European institutions are strong: "Strong supranational institutions are often seen as the antithesis of intergovernmentalism. Wrongly so" (Moravcsik 1993, 507). But they are at the service of member states, not independent: "The unique institutional structure of the EC is acceptable to national governments only insofar as it strengthens, rather than weakens, their control over domestic affairs, permitting them to attain goals otherwise unachievable" (Moravcsik 1993, 507).

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