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Salvatore Babones

SALVATORE BABONES (New York, 1969) earned his PhD in sociology from The Johns Hopkins University (2003). An American citizen, he is now an associate professor of sociology at the University of Sydney. His research takes a longue durée approach to elucidating the macro-level structure of the world economy, with a particular focus on China’s global economic integration. His most recent book is The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts (Polity, 2018), which The Wall Street Journal named “Best on Politics 2018”.

WAKING FROM THE EURASIAN DREAM

“Although the EU and several of its most powerful member states condemned Russia’s annexation of Crimea, dependence on Russian gas deterred European countries from taking any really meaningful action in response to the crisis. In theory, the EU could have crippled the Russian economy by placing an embargo on Russian

THE FUTURES OF EUROPE, NEGOTIABLE AND NON-NEGOTIABLE

In commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the European Commission has launched a White Paper on the Future of Europe to frame a conversation about the European Union’s post-Brexit possibilities. The White Paper celebrates the European Union’s achievements to date (and rightly so) before offering five

THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC POWER

When the United Kingdom voted on 23 June 2016 to leave the European Union, most people focused on immigration as the root cause. Some said it was xenophobia or even racism. And certainly immigration, xenophobia and racism were major issues in the referendum. But the ultimate cause of the Brexit vote was not immigration. It was economics. Around 3.2 million