Conceptualising the Mediterranean Global South: A research agenda on security, borders and human flows

What does globalization tell us concerning the Mediterranean? How has the global transformation (Buzan, Lawson 2013) involved the Mediterranean? Where does the Mediterranean stand in debates on regional (dis)order (Attinà 2021)? Which are the main features of the Mediterranean Global South in the 21st century? Following the end of the Cold War, the Global South concept entered the International Relations (IR) scholarly debate to reflect global transformations and change (Korany 1994). Overcoming traditional cleavages such as the North-South divide and the East-West cleavage, referring to Global South marks a shift from a development or cultural focus to embrace more comprehensive geopolitical power relations. This contribution seeks to (re)conceptualise the Global South adding a Mediterranean dimension, replacing obsolete concepts such as third world or under-developed poor South, focusing on a wider range of interconnected dimensions and issues, including climate change, environment, migration, (lack of) democracy/authoritarian resilience, viruses and pandemics, alongside security and development.