The Post-Liberalism World Order and the Changes in the European Mobility Policies

The EU Foreign Policy, and its practices of geopolitics, is affected by several contemporary pressures, belonging either to the broad global political landscape, or to domestic and nearby forces. The transition from liberal internationalism’s values and principles to an alternative multipolar order is making the EU increasingly vulnerable and allegedly politically irrelevant. The paper studies this order transition analysing the role of EU in a crucial policy of human mobility. The 2018 Global Compact on Migration, the EU securitised programmes with Mediterranean partners and the European Return Regime uncover that while migration, remain a salient issue, the stemming world and EU policies concerning human mobility and asylum contend the liberal internationalism, part of EU’s vision in the last decades. The free movement of people, an already highly contentious policy, seems not a likely expected policy of the contemporary post-liberalism world order. The paper explores how the EU contemporary approach to mobility affects the broad contemporary migration regime, drawing some insights for the analysis of the contemporary phase of world order.