Balint is a PhD candidate in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with expertise on European and East Asian international history during the interwar period. He studied for his undergraduate degree at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest and the University of Bristol, and holds an MSc in Theory and History of International Relations from the LSE. 

Balint’s research focuses on Soviet and British foreign policy in the interwar period and the early roots of the Cold War. His thesis explores how the Anglo-Soviet ideological and geopolitical antagonism in the 1920s shaped the course of the anti-imperialist revolution in China, and what the confrontation in China reveals about the nature of Anglo-Soviet relations in the period. Drawing on a wide range of sources from British, Russian, and Chinese archives, Balint aims to demonstrate how competing visions of modernity, legacies of imperial rivalry and colonial anti-imperialism intersected to shape both local developments in China and the precarious international landscape of the interwar era.

In addition to his doctoral project, he is currently working on a journal article that examines Soviet-Hungarian relations in the 1920s, with a particular focus on the underlying factors that led to the failure of negotiations aimed at establishing diplomatic and economic ties between Hungary and the Soviet Union.

Provisional thesis title: "Britain, Soviet Russia and the Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923-1927."

Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok, Head of the Cold War Studies programme. 

Research Cluster: Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War