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Associate Professor Peter Balint

Associate Professor Peter Balint

Associate Professor
UNSW Canberra
School of Humanities & Social Sciences

Dr Peter Balint is an Associate Professor in International & Political Studies at UNSW Canberra. His research is primarily focussed on the principles for diversity, including respect, toleration, neutrality, and social cohesion. His books include Debating Multiculturalism: Should There be Minority Rights? with PT Lenard (Oxford University Press, 2022), and Respecting Toleration: Traditional Liberalism and Contemporary Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2017), which was awarded an APSA CRISP Prize in 2018. He has held Visiting Fellowships at The University of Manchester (MANCEPT), The University of Ottawa, The Morell Centre for Toleration (University of York), and CAPPE (Australian National University). In 2010-11 he was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship at The Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main on the project 'Justitia Amplificata. Rethinking Justice − Applied and Global'. He is a founding member of the Global Justice Network, and a regular editor of their journal, Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric. 

 

Areas of Potential Postgraduate Supervision

  • Political theory/philosophy
  • Multiculturalism and related topics (incl. military sociology and diversity)
  • Privacy and cybersecurity

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Phone
+61 2 5114 5075
E-mail
p.balint@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 28-203
  • Books | 2022
    Lenard PT; Balint P, 2022, Debating Multiculturalism Should There Be Minority Rights?, Oxford University Press
    Books | 2017
    Balint PA, 2017, Respecting Toleration: Traditional Liberalism and Contemporary Diversity, Oxford University Press, Oxford
    Books | 2013
    Balint P; Latour SGD, 2013, Liberal Multiculturalism and the Fair Terms of Integration, Balint PA; Guérard de Latour S, (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    Balint P, 2022, 'Political Toleration Explained', in The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration, Springer International Publishing, pp. 129 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42121-2_44
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Balint P, 2019, 'Neutrality, Toleration, and Religious Diversity', in Bialasiewicz L; Gentile V (ed.), Spaces of Tolerance Changing Geographies and Philosophies of Religion in Today’s Europe, Routledge, pp. 43 - 60
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Balint P, 2019, 'The importance of racial tolerance for anti-racism', in Paradies Y (ed.), Re-configuring Anti-racism, Routledge, Oxford, pp. 26 - 42, https://www.routledge.com/products/search?author=Yin%20Paradies
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Balint PA, 2015, 'Fairness and Justice', in Key Concepts in Military Ethics, UNSW Press, pp. 76 - 81
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Balint PA, 2015, 'The Social Contract', in Key Concepts in Military Ethics, UNSW Press, pp. 40 - 44
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Balint PA, 2014, 'Diversity, national identity and social cohesion: welfare redistribution and national defence', in Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 221 - 240, http://www.cambridge.org/au/academic/subjects/law/jurisprudence/allegiance-and-identity-globalised-world?format=HB
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Balint PA, 2013, 'Resisting Liberal Nationalism', in Balint P; Latour SGD (ed.), Liberal Multiculturalism and the Fair Terms of Integration, Palgrave Macmillan
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Balint PA, 2013, 'The Fair Terms of Integration: Liberal Multiculturalism Reconsidered', in Balint P; Latour SGD (ed.), Liberal Multiculturalism and the Fair Terms of Integration, Palgrave Macmillan
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Balint PA, 2011, 'Education for Tolerance:Respecting Sameness, Not Difference', in Coleman EB; White K (ed.), Religious Tolerance, Education and the Curriculum, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 41 - 52, http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-94-6091-412-6#section=981607&page=1
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Balint PA, 2010, 'Avoiding an Intolerant Society: Why Respect of Difference may not be the Best', in Sardoc M (ed.), Toleration, Respect and Recognition in Education, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., pp. 123 - 134
  • Journal articles | 2024
    McSwiney J; Ercan SA; Dryzek JS; Balint P, 2024, 'Building Democratic Resilience: Protecting the Public Sphere From Violent Extremism', Crime and Delinquency, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00111287241271209
    Journal articles | 2021
    Balint P; Torresi T, 2021, 'Migration, Integration, and the City', Journal of Applied Philsophy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/japp.12500
    Journal articles | 2021
    Balint P, 2021, 'Introduction: Is a Military Really Worth Having?', Ethics and International Affairs, 35, pp. 343 - 352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0892679421000368
    Journal articles | 2020
    Lenard PT; Balint P, 2020, 'What is (the wrong of) cultural appropriation?', Ethnicities, 20, pp. 331 - 352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796819866498
    Journal articles | 2019
    Balint P, 2019, 'Toleration, neutrality, and freedom: a reply', Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2019.1609394
    Journal articles | 2018
    Balint P, 2018, 'Toleration and groups', European Journal of Political Theory, 17, pp. 375 - 384, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474885116661112
    Journal articles | 2018
    Balint PA; Eriksson L; Torresi T, 2018, 'State power and breastfeeding promotion: A critique', Contemporary Political Theory, 17, pp. 306 - 330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41296-017-0158-3
    Journal articles | 2016
    Balint P, 2016, 'The importance of racial tolerance for anti-racism', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39, pp. 16 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2016.1099713
    Journal articles | 2015
    Balint P; Dobos N, 2015, 'Perpetuating the Military Myth - Why the Psychology of the 2014 Australian Defence Pay Deal Is Irrelevant', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 74, pp. 359 - 363, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12161
    Journal articles | 2015
    Balint P, 2015, 'Identity Claims: Why Liberal Neutrality is the Solution, Not the Problem', Political Studies, 63, pp. 495 - 509, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.12086
    Journal articles | 2014
    Balint P, 2014, 'Acts of tolerance: A political and descriptive account', European Journal of Political Theory, 13, pp. 264 - 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474885113492729
    Journal articles | 2014
    Balint P, 2014, 'Toleration', AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, 92, pp. 816 - 817, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2014.915859
    Journal articles | 2013
    Balint PA; Moir C, 2013, 'Understanding Conscience Vote Decisions: The case of the ACT', Australasian Parliamentary Review, 28, pp. 43 - 56, http://www.aspg.org.au/journal/2013autumn.php
    Journal articles | 2013
    Balint PA, 2013, 'Against Respecting Each Others' Differences', Journal of Applied Philosophy, 30, pp. 254 - 267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/japp.12016
    Journal articles | 2012
    Balint PA, 2012, 'Not Yet Making Sense of Political Toleration', Res Publica, 18, pp. 259 - 264, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11158-012-9177-3
    Journal articles | 2010
    Balint PA, 2010, 'Avoiding an Intolerant Society: Why respect of difference may not be the best approach', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 42/1, pp. 129 - 141
    Journal articles | 2006
    Balint PA, 2006, 'Respect Relationships in Diverse Societies', Res Publica, 12, pp. 35 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11158-006-0004-6
    Journal articles | 1970
    Balint P; Kollar E; Lenard P; Torresi T, 1970, 'Women’s Bodies and Global Poverty Eradication', Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/gjn.8.1.78
  • Conference Papers | 2011
    Balint PA, 2011, 'Neutrality and Diversity', in APSA Conference 2011 Full Papers (online), Australian Political Studies Association, Canberra, pp. 1 - 16, presented at Australian Political Studies Association Conference 2011: Crisis, Uncertainty and Democracy, Canberra, 26 September 2011 - 28 September 2011, http://law.anu.edu.au/coast/events/apsa/papers.htm
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Balint PA, 2009, 'Should the Promotion of Breastfeeding be Government Policy?', in Should the Promotion of Breastfeeding be Government Policy?, APSA Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, presented at APSA Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Balint PA, 2009, 'The Practice of Toleration and the Attitude of Tolerance', in Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, Australian Political Studies Association, Macquarie University, Sydney, presented at Australian Political Studies Association, Macquarie University, Sydney, 28 September 2009 - 30 September 2009, http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/ept/politics/apsa/abs.politicalsocialtheory.html
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Balint PA, 2008, 'How Much Social Cohesion Do We Really Need?', in Selected Papers: Questioning Cosmopolitanism, Melbourne (Deakin), Selected Papers: Questioning Cosmopolitanism Melbourne 26-28 June 2008, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, presented at Selected Papers: Questioning Cosmopolitanism Melbourne 26-28 June 2008, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, 26 June 2008 - 28 June 2008
    Conference Papers | 2005
    Balint PA, 2005, 'On the Role of Respect in Relation to Difference', in On the Role of Respect in Relation to Difference, Australasian Political Science Association Annual Conference 2005, Dunedin, New Zealand, presented at Australasian Political Science Association Annual Conference 2005, Dunedin, New Zealand, 28 September 2005 - 30 September 2005, http://www.otago.ac.nz/politicalstudies/conferences/apsa05/papSPT9_Balint_paper.pdf

“Learning Democratic Resilience: Public Sphere Responses to Extremism”, NSW Government, Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Program 2022, with Selen Ercan (University of Canberra), John Dryzek (University of Canberra), and Jordan McSwiney (University of Sydney). $50, 000 January-August 2022.

“Democratic Resilience: The Public Sphere and Extremist Attacks”, ARC Discovery Grant (DP210102436). With CIs: John Dryzek (UC), Selen Ercan (UC), and Dr Jensen Sass (ANU). And PIs: Jeffrey Alexander (Yale), Emily Beausoleil (Victoria University of Wellington), Ian O’Flynn (Newcastle, UK), and Andrea Felicetti (Scuola Normale Superiore). $511,809, Dec 2021-2024.

Paid Visiting Researcher Program, University of Ottawa. $10,000, 2020.

“Toleration and Respect”, Freilich Foundation Early Career Researcher Grant. $3,000, 2015.