Description
IR world transition analyses have addressed the role of great powers in shaping principles, institutions and world policies to manage collective problems. Institutional approaches have explored internal decision-making process within International Organizations (IOs), without connecting them to the broader framework. The paper explores the institutional autonomy of IOM and how this affects the migration regime. The underling aim is to draw some insights for the analysis of the contemporary phase of world order.
From being a barely logistical and western countries’ organization, the IOM has expanded its membership and agency, joining the UN system in 2016, when also China entered the organization. The 2018 Global Compact on Migration and the IOM increasing influence, reveal that while migration remain one salient issue, the stemming world policies concerning human mobility challenges liberalism. The free movement of people, an already highly contentious policy, in the contemporary post-liberalism world order is not a likely expected policy stemming from the IOM.
