Making Globalization Happen The Untold Story of Power, Profits, Privilege

In Making Globalization Happen: The Untold Story of Power, Profits, Privilege, Sripati explains how, when, through which entities, and for what purposes economic globalization was catalyzed and its effects on the Global South in general and South Asia in particular. Based on an innovative international constitutional political economy framework, Sripati examines how the Western classical liberal constitution has shaped international law developments in this post-colonial era given its salience and comprehensive scope. Presenting a comprehensive narrative of economic globalization, Making Globalization Happen accurately and comprehensively links constitutional globalization to the following UN family-created agendas: peacebuilding, conflict prevention, human security, protection of civilians, sustainable development, global war on terrorism, women, peace, and security, poverty reduction or market-oriented development, ending conflict-related sexual violence, and justice (climate, criminal, and transitional). Sripati simultaneously provides the missing constitutional foundation for globalization and the fields that it has spawned: global studies and law and political economy. With these ground-breaking insights, Making Globalization Happen: The Untold Story of Power, Profits, Privilege clearly illustrates who drove constitutional globalization and for whose benefit: the UN family and transnational capitalists. Thus, it rips away the facade of UN family-driven peace, justice, human rights, democracy, and development to expose it as a narrative of power, profit, and privilege for transnational capitalists and debt, death, and despair for the Global South.

Vijayashri Sripati, Visiting Scholar, Trafficking and Social Justice Institute, College of Health and Human Services, University of Toledo, Ohio

Vijayashri Sripati has served as a visiting scholar at the Trafficking and Social Justice Institute in the College of Health and Human Services at the University of Toledo, Ohio (2019-2023). Her work intersects three disciplines that developed in parallel during the 1990s: Western constitutional law, public international law, and international political economy. Sripati's Constitution-Making Under UN Auspices: Fostering Dependency in Sovereign Lands (OUP, 2020) and Making Globalization Happen: An Untold Story of Power, Profits, Privilege (OUP, 2024) have shown that, since the mid-1980s, the UN family has co-promoted the classical liberal constitution, engendering two concurrent but new disciplines: global studies and international constitutional law/constitutional political economy. By providing the parental or constitutional foundation for these disciplines, Sripati's work elaborates upon what drives global politico-economic governance: the international constitutional order.

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Part I
1. The Constitution's Globalisation: An Uncharted but Significant Topic
2. The Silent Takeover
3. The Business of Peacebuilding/Reducing Poverty to Maximise Profits
4. Violence Against Women: A Constitutional Political Economy/Global Studies Perspective
Part II
5. Manufacturing Women's Consent for Policies That Harm Them
6. Venture Capital Meets Violence Against Women
7. Untold: The UN Protection of Civilian (POC) Measures Harm Civilians
8. The Constitutional Wire Connects Economic Globalisation, Counter-terrorism, Militarism, and Dependency
9. Why Does UN Transitional Justice Ignore Economic Violence? Look to Its Parent
10. Constitutionally Silencing Human Rights
Index