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Making Globalization Happen: The Untold Story of Power, Profits, Privilege 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.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
Summary
Making Globalization Happen: The Untold Story of Power, Profits, Privilege 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.
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Combining the terms rule of law and global capitalism seems sensible, even constructive, in parts of the world. In others, especially in former colonies, the combination can suggest continuing oppression and deepening dependency. Critical legal scholar Vijayashri Sripati explains why the latter response persists. She explores the constitutive global forces that animate law and politics in countries where most of the world's population resides. Her approach is analytical as well as polemical and intends to spark important debates.
