“…Indeed, whilst incremental reform has not meant an abandonment of Germany's civilian power tradition, it created an uncertainty that compromised one of its traditionally most important features, the 'plodding yet predictable' nature of its attritional multilateralism. 83 Germany has been unable, or unwilling, to develop a single set of policy guidelines for interventionism and left the international community uncertain of when it will act and of what the nature of its contribution will be. 84 foreign policy adaptation, such as the commitment to Kosovo, greater assertion with regard to EC budgetary contributions, and the von Weizsaecker Commission.…”