International relations in Europe, 1689-1789

J.H. Shennan9780415077804, 041507780X

International Relations in Europe: 1689-1789 explores not only with the complexity of relationships which characterized this period, but also with the changing criteria upon which such relationships were based. In place of the key concept of dynasticism which had dominated the earlier period, ideas of collective security and reason of state began to influence the thinking and actions of rulers and their ministers. The emerging amorality of international relations was epitomized in the partitions of Poland during the last third of the 18th century, and Poland