`Meyer's book is the first major study of European strategic culture to be published and as such merits serious reflection by scholars and justifies the lengthy synopsis given above (...) he has trailblazed a highly productive and indicative theoretical-empirical approach to the understanding of this important concept' (Professor Jolyon Howorth, Security and Defence Policy in the European Union (Palgrave, 2007), p. 192)
`Closet historians will certainly find appealing his in-depth look at deep-seated norms, beliefs and ideas (...) Social scientists will be impressed by the layered approach of constructivist, realist and sociological institutionalist theories marshalled to explore his four goals. (...) Meyer provides a timely and well researched picture of European strategic culture and ESDP potential, and is to be commended for his attempts at analysing the infinitely tougher connection between the two' (Amelia Hadfield, University of Kent, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol 45, No 3, 2007.