He is the author or editor of ten books and more than two dozen academic research articles.His two main areas of academic research are the political economy of the greater China region and the methodology of quantitative modeling in the social sciences.He also publishes extensively on American social and foreign policy. Salvatore Babones is interested in understanding the structure of the Chinese, Asian, and global economies. ​He is currently studying how China's New Silk Road policies fit into the geoeconomics of the larger world-system. ​​​