Millennium: Journal of International Studies 

About: Millennium: Journal of International Studies is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): International relations & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0305-8298. Over the lifetime, 2047 publications have been published receiving 42499 citations.

Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory

Abstract: Academic conventions divide up the seamless web of the real social world into separate spheres, each with its own theorising; this is a necessary and practical way of gaining understanding. Subdivisions of social knowledge thus may roughly correspond to the ways in which human affairs are organised in particular times and places. E. H. Carr and Eric Hobsbawm have both been sensitive to the continuities between social forces, the changing nature of the state and global relationships. Critical theory is directed to the social and political complex as a whole rather than to the separate parts. Critical theory allows for a normative choice in favour of a social and political order different from the prevailing order, but it limits the range of choice to alternative orders which are feasible transformations of the existing world. The "common rationality" of neo-realism arises from its polemic with liberal internationalism.

Constructing the Self and Changing Others: Reconsidering `Normative Power Europe'

Abstract: The European Union (EU) is widely seen as a novel kind of actor in international politics. This has been captured succinctly by Ian Manner's term `normative power Europe'. This article reviews the ...