Salvatore Babones

Salvatore Babones (born October 5, 1969) is an American sociologist, associate professor at the University of Sydney, and an expert in the areas of Chinese and American economy and society. His research is related to macro-level structure of the world economy, with a particular focus on China's global economic integration. He is an author of several books, numerous academic articles, and a contributor to Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera English, Quadrant and Truthout.

Salvatore Babones
Born (1969-10-05) October 5, 1969
New Jersey
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materJohns Hopkins University (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsUniversity of Sydney

Biography

He received PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2003. From 2003 to 2008 he has been a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh; since 2008 at the University of Sydney. He has also been a Visiting Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (2015) and a Visiting Scholar at Academia Sinica in Taipei (2015).[1]

He has been associated with or written for the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington), the Russian International Affairs Council (Moscow), the Centre for International Relations (Warsaw), the Poland-Asia Research Center (Warsaw) and the Latvian International Affairs Council (Riga).[1]

Work

Babones has offered a reformulation of world-systems analysis that distinguishes five core elements of the perspective from ancillary theories that have been promulgated within that perspective. He added to these five core elements the "strong theorem" that the core-periphery hierarchy of the modern world-economy could best be understood in terms of state strength and cultural integration. He began to use the historical Chinese concept of tianxia ("all under heaven") to describe the structure of the millennial world-system as an American tianxia that has endogenized the entire world-economy under a single, American-dominated political system. He also writes on quantitative methodology for the social sciences.[1]

In 2018 he published a book on Donald Trump and his administration, dealing with modern meaning and framing of concepts such as democracy, populism and authoritarianism.[2][3]

Books
  • Babones, S. (2009). The International Structure of Income: Its Implications for Economic Growth. Saarbruecken: VDM Verlag Dr Muller.
  • Esteva, G., Babones, S., Babcicky, P. (2013). The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
  • Babones, S. (2014). Methods for Quantitative Macro-Comparative Research. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
  • Babones, S. (2015). Sixteen for '16: A progressive Agenda for a Better America. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
  • Elsenhans, H., and Babones, S. (2017). BRICS or Bust? Escaping the Middle-Income Trap. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  • Babones, S. (2017). American Tianxia: Chinese Money, American Power, and the End of History. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
  • Babones, S. (2018). The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts. Cambridge, UK: Polity. Was awarded "Best on Politics, 2018" by The Wall Street Journal.[2]

References
  1. Biography on official homepage
  2. Swaim, Barton (7 December 2018). "Books on Politics: Best of 2018". The Wall Street Journal.
  3. Albrechtsen, Janet (21 November 2018). "Trump takes on the experts to save democracy". The Australian.
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