he war on 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 so as to improve the lot of humanity in social equity'. After all, as both Cox(1989) and Maclean(1981) argue, an understanding of change should be a central feature of any theory of international relations So it is with the express purpose of analysing the potential for structural transformations in world order that critical international theory identifies and examines emancipatory counter-hegemonic' forces. Counter-hegemonic forces could be states, such as a coalition of "Third World' states which struggles to undo the dominance of core' countries, or the 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' in civil society(Cox Maiguaschea 2003: Eschle and Maiguaschca 2005)