Biography:Iain King

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King (centre) speaking in Afghanistan, 2009
King (centre) in Afghanistan, 2009

Iain Benjamin King CBE FRSA is a British writer.[1] King was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours, for services to governance in Libya, Afghanistan and Kosovo.[2][3] He is a Scholar at the Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy at West Point,[4] and a former Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies,[5] and at Cambridge University.[6][7][8][1]

After seven years work on the Northern Ireland peace process in the 1990s,[5] Iain King held a senior political role in Kosovo’s UN Administration,[9] and co-authored a book on the history of Kosovo and the difficulties of post-war state-building in the Balkans, called Peace at Any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo.

His 2008 book, How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time: Solving the Riddle of Right and Wrong, starts with a history of moral philosophy and then develops a hybrid methodology for ethical decision-making.[10] King's approach has been described as quasi-utilitarian,[11][12] and credited with reconciling competing systems of ethics.[13][14][15]

Secrets of The Last Nazi, based on extensive research of the Nazi era, was King's debut novel, first published in 2015.[16][17] A sequel followed in 2016.[16]

Making Peace in War is about Afghanistan.[18]

King has been featured as a foreign policy analyst on CNN and BBC,[5] and has written for multiple outlets, many of them based in the US, including NBC,[19] Defense One,[20] Prospect,[6] and National Interest.[21]

Bibliography

  • King, Iain; Mason, Whit (2006). Peace at Any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445392. 
  • King, Iain (2008). How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time: Solving the Riddle of Right and Wrong. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84706-347-2. 
  • King, Iain (2014). Making Peace in War. Amazon Media.
  • King, Iain (2015). Secrets of The Last Nazi. Bookouture. ISBN:1910751103
  • King, Iain (2016). Last Prophecy of Rome. Bookouture.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Iain King". Bloomsbury. http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/iain-king/. 
  2. ↑ "Queen's birthday honours list 2013: GCB, DBE and CBE" in The Guardian . 15 June 2013. "Queen's birthday honours list 2013: GCB, DBE and CBE | UK news | guardian.co.uk". The Guardian. 14 June 2013. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/15/queens-birthday-honours-cbe. 
  3. ↑ "Birthday Honours lists 2013" at gov.uk
  4. ↑ Modern War Institute "Scholars". https://mwi.usma.edu/adjunct-scholars/iain-king/. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "CSIS Expert Page". CSIS. 2019-12-18. https://www.csis.org/people/iain-king. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "About the Author: Iain King". Prospect. 2013-04-24. http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/economics-and-finance/economics-ethics-free-markets. 
  7. ↑ "War Philosophers: How much were our ideas shaped by war?". University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. 2014-06-02. http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/52873. 
  8. ↑ Philosophy Now. Philosophy Now. 2014-01-31. http://philosophynow.org/issues/100/Moral_Laws_of_the_Jungle. Retrieved 2017-01-08. 
  9. ↑ Oisín Tansey. Review of Peace at Any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo by Iain King, Whit Mason in International Journal, Vol. 62, No. 3, "What Kind of Security? Afghanistan and Beyond" (Summer, 2007), pp. 717-720.
  10. ↑ Geoff Crocker. An Enlightened Philosophy: Can an Atheist Believe Anything? John Hunt Publishing, 2011. ISBN:978-1846944246 pp. 85–86
  11. ↑ Vardy, Charlotte and Peter (2012). Ethics Matters. SCM Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-334-04391-1. 
  12. ↑ How to Make Good Decisions… a 62 Point Summary at iainbking.com
  13. ↑ Chandler Brett (2014-07-16). "24 and Philosophy". Blackwell. http://andphilosophy.com/2014/07/16/24-and-philosophy. at
  14. ↑ Frezzo, Eldo (2018-10-25). Medical Ethics: A Reference Guide. Routledge. p. 5. ISBN 978-1138581074. 
  15. ↑ Zuckerman, Phil (2019-09-10). What it Means to be Moral. Counterpoint. p. 21. ISBN 978-1640092747. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Fantastic Fiction: Iain King". https://www.fantasticfiction.com/k/iain-king/. 
  17. ↑ "Bookouture snaps up Nazi conspiracy thriller". The Bookseller. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/bookouture-snaps-nazi-conspiracy-thriller. Retrieved 9 September 2015. 
  18. ↑ "Making Peace in War". British Army Review. 23 December 2014. http://iainbking.com/war/making-peace-in-war/. 
  19. ↑ Iain King (2019-11-09). "Democracy seemed to have won out, but we were wrong". NBC. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/berlin-wall-fell-30-years-ago-democracy-seemed-have-won-ncna1079206. 
  20. ↑ Iain King (2019-09-30). "Why It's Really Hard to Buy Peace in Afghanistan". Defense One. https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/09/its-really-hard-buy-peace-afghanistan/160005/. 
  21. ↑ Iain King (2019-11-27). "NATO". National Interest. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-nato-stronger-ever-100482. Retrieved 2019-12-18. 

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