The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present; they cannot guarantee their own progress or control their own future. The essential thing is to remain faithful to the few fixed principles that have guided us from the beginning: gradually create the broadest common interest among Europeans, at the service of common democratic institutions to which the necessary sovereignty has been delegated. Jean Monnet, Memoirs In his book After Victory, John Ikenberry examines what states do with the power that comes from winning major wars. He believes that the desire to maintain power encourages states to look for ways to limit their own power to keep other states happy. These limits are increasingly found in international institutions used to create “strategic control” over power. Ikenberry believes that the growing dependence on institutions causes the post-war order to take on more and more constitutional characteristics. In this article my interest is mainly aimed at the institutions of the European Union. More specifically I would like to examine the European Union's struggle to develop its own institutions for maintaining international order. These are collectively known as the Common Foreign and Security Policy. Collective Security of Europe The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union (EU) was officially established by the Maastricht Treaty and became operational in 1993. However, the European Union has been concerned about collective security since its humble beginnings as an experiment in integrated economics in post-World War II Europe. After the conclusion of World War II, Europe and the rest of the world struggled to determine what Germany's future should be. Some nations wanted to deprive Germany of its industries and turn the entire country into agricultural land. Fortunately, there were those with the foresight to understand that the only way to keep Europe safe was to rebuild Germany and work together to build a European Community. These men included Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer and Jean Monnet. Their vision of Europe was one in which individual nations would share some of their sovereignty in exchange for a chance at peace. According to Pascal Fontaine, ¡°success depended on the limitation of objectives to concrete sectors, with a strong psychological impact, and on the introduction of a joint decision-making mechanism to which additional responsibilities would be progressively assigned.¡± The first sector chosen for the mission Franco-German integration concerned the production of steel and coal. European Coal and Steel Community