Salvatore Babones

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Salvatore Babones
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Born (1969-10-05) October 5, 1969 (age 51)
New Jersey
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materJohns Hopkins University (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsUniversity of Sydney

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, The Australian and Truthout.

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]

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 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]

His research into Australian universities' dependence on international (particularly Chinese) students has driven international education debates in the country.[2][3][4][5]

He has been associated with or written for the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington), the Russian International Affairs Council (Moscow), the (Warsaw), the (Warsaw), the (Riga) and the Centre for Independent Studies (Sydney).[1][6] Babones is also a Contributing Editor to 19FortyFive.[7]

In 2018 he published a book The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts on Donald Trump and his administration, dealing with modern meaning and framing of concepts such as democracy, populism and authoritarianism.[8] The book has as named ‘Best on Politics 2018’ by the Wall Street Journal.[9]

Views[]

He has supported Trump's populist approach [9][8] and has described Ashli Babbitt, killed in the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, as "an American hero".[10]

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.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Biography on official homepage
  2. ^ Home, NTEU; Campaigns; Local, Go; Shop, NTEU; Login, Officers and Staff; Login, Member; Join; UniCasual; Degrees, No $100K. "An over-reliance on international students? (Advocate 27 02)". www.nteu.org.au. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  3. ^ "Australian universities risk catastrophe due to over-reliance on Chinese students, expert warns". www.abc.net.au. 2019-08-20. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  4. ^ Hondros, Nathan (2020-06-28). "WA universities face 'day of reckoning' with risk Chinese students might never return". WAtoday. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  5. ^ "Over-reliance on Chinese students putting Australian universities at risk, report warns". SBS News. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  6. ^ "Adjunct Scholars – The Centre for Independent Studies". www.cis.org.au. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  7. ^ "Meet the Team". 1945. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Albrechtsen, Janet (21 November 2018). "Trump takes on the experts to save democracy". The Australian.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b c Swaim, Barton (2018-12-07). "Books on Politics: Best of 2018". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  10. ^ Babones, Salvatore. "Democrats revel in defeating Trump's capitol coup but who will check Bidens power".

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