Salvatore Babones is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Sydney.  He is the author or editor of ten books and more than two dozen academic research papers applying comparative methods to the study of the international political economy.  He also writes extensively on international affairs and is a member of Foreign Affairs magazine's "China Brain Trust". His forthcoming co-authored book BRICS or Bust? Escaping the Middle Income Trap will be published by Stanford University Press in 2017.

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