Salvatore Babones

Salvatore Babones (born October 5, 1969) is an American sociologist, 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 and Truthout.

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).

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).

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.

• Babones, S. (2015). Sixteen for '16: A progressive Agenda for a Better America. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
• Babones, S. (2014). Methods for Quantitative Macro-Comparative Research. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
• Esteva, G., Babones, S., Babcicky, P. (2013). The Future of Development: A radical manifesto. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press.
• Babones, S. (2009). The International Structure of Income: Its Implications for Economic Growth. Saarbruecken: VDM Verlag Dr Muller.