The point of reflecting on changing world orders, as Cox(1999: 4 notes, is to"serve as a guide to action designed to change the world s to improve the lot of humanity in social equity'. After all, as both Co(1989) and Maclean(1981) argue, an understanding of change should he a central feature of any thcory of intcrnational relations. So it is with the cxpress purpose of analysing the porential for structural trans n world order that critical international theory identifies and TIOns examines emancipatory countcr hogemonic forces, Counter-hegemonic forces could be states, such as a coalition of"Third World states which struggles to undo the dominance of"core' countrics, or the"counter hegemonic alliance of forces on the world scale such as trade unions non-governmental organizations(NGOs) and new social movements which grow from the"bottom-up civil ociety(Cox 1999; Maiguaschea 2003; Eschle and Maiguaschca 2005)