British writer
King (centre) in Afghanistan, 2009 Iain Benjamin King CBE FRSA is a British writer.[ 1] King was appointed aCommander of the Order of the British Empire in the2013 Birthday Honours , for services to governance in Libya, Afghanistan and Kosovo.[ 2] [ 3] He is a Scholar at theModern War Institute ,United States Military Academy at West Point ,[ 4] and a former Fellow at theCenter for Strategic and International Studies ,[ 5] and atCambridge 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 inKosovo’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, calledPeace 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 theNazi era, was King'sdebut novel , first published in 2015.[ 16] [ 17] A sequel followed in 2016.[ 16]
Making Peace in War is aboutAfghanistan .[ 18]
King has been featured as a foreign policy analyst onCNN andBBC ,[ 5] and has written for multiple outlets, many of them based in the US, includingNBC ,[ 19] Defense One ,[ 20] Prospect ,[ 6] andNational Interest .[ 21]
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.ASIN B00LMTLVOW King, Iain (2015).Secrets of The Last Nazi . Bookouture.ISBN 1910751103 King, Iain (2016).Last Prophecy of Rome . Bookouture.ISBN 9781910751749 King, Iain (2023), with Deane-Peter Baker,Rufus Black , and Roger Herbert.Ethics at War: How Should Military Personnel Make Ethical Decisions? . Routledge.ISBN 9781032321202 ^a b "Iain King" . Bloomsbury. Retrieved8 February 2017 .^ "Queen's birthday honours list 2013: GCB, DBE and CBE" inThe Guardian . 15 June 2013."Queen's birthday honours list 2013: GCB, DBE and CBE | UK news | guardian.co.uk" .The Guardian . 14 June 2013. Archived from the original on 21 July 2013. Retrieved15 July 2013 .{{cite news }}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )^ "Birthday Honours lists 2013" atgov .uk Archived 3 December 2013 at theWayback Machine ^ Modern War Institute "Scholars" . Archived fromthe original on 5 November 2021. Retrieved3 September 2020 .^a b c "CSIS Expert Page" . CSIS. 18 December 2019. Archived fromthe original on 8 July 2020. Retrieved18 December 2019 .^a b "About the Author: Iain King" . Prospect. 24 April 2013. Retrieved8 February 2017 .^ "War Philosophers: How much were our ideas shaped by war?" . University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. 2 June 2014. Retrieved8 February 2017 .^ "Moral Laws of the Jungle" .Philosophy Now . Philosophy Now. 31 January 2014. Retrieved8 January 2017 .^ Oisín Tansey.Review ofPeace at Any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo by Iain King, Whit Mason inInternational Journal , Vol. 62, No. 3, "What Kind of Security? Afghanistan and Beyond" (Summer, 2007), pp. 717-720. ^ Geoff Crocker.An Enlightened Philosophy: Can an Atheist Believe Anything? John Hunt Publishing, 2011.ISBN 978-1846944246 pp. 85–86 ^ Vardy, Charlotte and Peter (2012).Ethics Matters . SCM Press. p. 116.ISBN 978-0-334-04391-1 . ^ How to Make Good Decisions… a 62 Point Summary atiainbking .com ^ Chandler Brett (16 July 2014)."24 and Philosophy" . Blackwell. Archived fromthe original on 2 January 2016. Retrieved18 December 2019 . at^ Frezzo, Eldo (25 October 2018).Medical Ethics: A Reference Guide . Routledge. p. 5.ISBN 978-1138581074 . ^ Zuckerman, Phil (10 September 2019).What it Means to be Moral . Counterpoint. p. 21.ISBN 978-1640092747 . ^a b "Fantastic Fiction: Iain King" . Retrieved18 December 2019 .^ "Bookouture snaps up Nazi conspiracy thriller" .The Bookseller . Retrieved9 September 2015 .^ "Making Peace in War" . British Army Review. 23 December 2014. Retrieved8 February 2017 .^ Iain King (9 November 2019)."Democracy seemed to have won out, but we were wrong" . NBC. Retrieved18 December 2019 . ^ Iain King (30 September 2019)."Why It's Really Hard to Buy Peace in Afghanistan" . Defense One. Retrieved18 December 2019 . ^ Iain King (27 November 2019)."NATO" .National Interest . Retrieved18 December 2019 .
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