From empires to nation states?:enduring legacies and historical disjunctures

This year Millennium’s special issue: ‘From Empires to Nation States?: Enduring Legacies and Historical Disjunctures’ aims to critically assess arguably one of the most important historical developments in international relations (IR) during the modern period – namely, the transition from empires to nation states. This transition had fundamental consequences in the development of International Relations in the 20th and 21st centuries as well as profound consequences for the discipline of IR.