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Dr Daniel Baldino

Senior Lecturer, Politics & International Relations

Email: daniel.baldino@nd.edu.au
Phone: 9433 0127

Dr Daniel Baldino is a political scientist, specialising in international relations, US politics, Australian foreign policy and intelligence sector reform. He completed his PhD at the University of South Australia. He also has a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Education (Secondary Business) and Masters in International Politics. In 2000, he was a Research Associate at the Library of Congress, Washington DC. In 2005 he was a visiting scholar at the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois, USA and in 2007 at the Security and Governance Program, East-West Center, Hawaii, USA.

Recent books have included editing a book on democratic oversight of the intelligence sector in a range of democratic nations and co-authoring a book on contemporary challenges to Australian security. He is currently working on a number of book projects.

In addition to a variety of other published chapters and papers regarding security strategy and foreign policy, he has written for The Conversation, Eureka Street, the Hawke Institute, The Diplomat, Arena magazine and the Evatt Foundation. He has been teaching at Notre Dame since 2008.

Current Projects:

Baldino, D (with Langlios, A and Carr, A), Australian Foreign Policy: The key debates, Oxford University Press (to be published in 2013).

Baldino, D, Spooked: the truth about intelligence and security in Australia, UNSW Press (to be published in 2013).

Baldino, D, 'McCormack and the Psychology of Intelligence Analysis' in Lesson, R (ed.), Pigou an Introduction, Palgrave, MacMillan (to be published in 2012).

Accepted papers:

Baldino, D (and Gould, J), ‘Iran and the Emergence of Information Communication Technology: The Evolution of Revolution?’, Australian Journal of International Affairs (accepted November 3 2012).

Selected Publications:

2012 Baldino, D (and Drum, M), 2012, ‘Community-based policing as an alternative to ‘stop and search’? The example of Northbridge, Western Australia’, Public Policy, Vol.7, No.2.

Baldino, D, 2012, 'Book Review: US-India Strategic Relations', Journal of South Asian Development April 2012 7: 65-70.

Baldino, D (with Drum, M), 2012, "Extended 'Stop and Search' Powers in Australia: A challenge for relations between police officers and citizens" GSTF Journal of Law and Social Sciences Vol. 2.No. 1.
2011Baldino, D, 2011, (with Lundberg, D, Pietsch, J and Rees, J), Contemporary Challenges to Australian Security, Palgrave MacMillan.
2010Baldino, D (with Drum, M and Wyatt, B), 2010, 'The Privatization of Prisoner Transfer Services in Western Australia. What can we learn from the Ward case?', Australian Journal of Public Administration, Volume 69, Issue 4, December.

Baldino, D, 'The Rudd government and national security: continuity or change in the war on terror?', The Oceanic Conference on International Studies (OCIS), The University of Auckland, New Zealand, July (peer-review paper).

Baldino, D (with Drum, M), 'Accountability and Control: The Politics of Privatisation in WA', Australian Political Studies Association, The University of Melbourne, September (peer-review paper).
2009Baldino, Daniel (ed.), Democratic Oversight of Intelligence and its Challenges, Federation Press, Melbourne.
2008Baldino, Daniel, 'The National Interest in a Global Era' in Aulich, C and Wettenhall, R (eds.), Howard's Fourth Term, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.

Baldino, Daniel, 'Good Instincts or Poor Judgment? Australia's counter-terrorism response after 9-11', Australasian Political Science Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, September (peer-reviewed paper).
2007Baldino, Daniel, 'Reviving the Domino Theory' in Eureka Street, vol.17, no.8.

Baldino, Daniel, 'Australia and the World' in Aulich, C and Wettenhall, R (eds.), Howard's Second and Third Governments, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.
2006 Baldino, Daniel, 'Problems of Order, Security and Identity in an Era of International Terrorism' in Hawke Working Paper Series, no.34, The Hawke Institute of Sustainable Societies.

Baldino, Daniel, 'The Politics of Alliance Management – the future of ANZUS', 57th British Political Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Reading, UK, April 5 (peer-reviewed paper).
2005Baldino, Daniel, 'The Rehabilitation of Natural Law: Needless Metaphysics or Serving the Common Good?' in International Journal of the Humanities, vol.2, no.2.
2004Ph.D.: From Containment to Enlargement – The impact of the expansion of democracy on US grand strategy and international security under the Clinton administration.

Baldino, Daniel, 'Democracy assistance and the Clinton administration's strategy of selective opportunism', Australasian Political Science Conference, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, September-October (peer-reviewed paper).