The paper reconsiders the possibility of involving the state within normative projects for global order, considering it not necessarily as an obstacle but rather as an asset for those who wish to change the current international context. The paper proposes to frame state’s agency as the particular course of action that any state pursues in order to realize its own preferred project for global order and it suggest a tentative way to do so. The state’s agency understood as transformative foreign policy is presented as a long-term enterprise that comprises three core elements: the definition of a project for global order, the articulation of national interest as a through policies consistent with and conducive to one’s own project, and the reflexive assessment of the project that takes place both in the domestic as well as in the international public debate.
