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Review Article InternatIonal relatIons theory and the rIse of european foreIgn and securIty polIcy By ulrIch Krotz and rIchard Maher* Jeffrey t. checkel, ed. 2007. International Institutions and Socialization in Europe. new york: cambridge university press, 292 pp. Marise cremona, ed. 2008. Developments in EU External Relations Law. oxford: oxford university press, 336 pp. Marise cremona and Bruno de Witte, eds. 2008. EU Foreign Relations Law: Con- stitutional Fundamentals. portland, ore.: hart publishing, 324 pp. seth g. Jones. 2007. The Rise of European Security Cooperation. new york: cam- bridge university press, 310 pp. christoph o. Meyer. 2007. The Quest for a European Strategic Culture: Changing Norms on Security and Defence in the European Union . Basingstoke: palgrave Macmillan, 232 pp. Michael e. smith. 2004. Europe’s Foreign and Security Policy: The Institutionaliza- tion of Cooperation. new york: cambridge university press, 308 pp. t least since the mid-1960s, conventional wisdom held that eu- aropean integration in foreign policy, security, and defense was un- likely to amount to much very quickly or smoothly, irrespective of the often impressive achievements in other policy areas.1 however, begin- ning in the mid-1990s, under the auspices of a common foreign and se- curity policy (cfsp) and a european security and defense policy (esdp), european integration in these domains of traditional “high politics” has evolved and consolidated bit by bit. the old conventional wisdom, that is, no longer seems to accurately reflect political reality. * We are grateful to the editors of World Politics and to the anonymous reviewers for helpful com- ments and suggestions. 1 gordon 1997–98; haas 1975; hoffmann 1966; hoffmann 1982; hoffmann 2000; zielonka 1998. an interesting