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Iain King

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British writer

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

Iain Benjamin KingCBEFRSA 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]

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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]

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References

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  1. ^ab"Iain King". Bloomsbury. Retrieved8 February 2017.
  2. ^"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)
  3. ^"Birthday Honours lists 2013" atgov.ukArchived 3 December 2013 at theWayback Machine
  4. ^Modern War Institute"Scholars". Archived fromthe original on 5 November 2021. Retrieved3 September 2020.
  5. ^abc"CSIS Expert Page". CSIS. 18 December 2019. Archived fromthe original on 8 July 2020. Retrieved18 December 2019.
  6. ^ab"About the Author: Iain King". Prospect. 24 April 2013. Retrieved8 February 2017.
  7. ^"War Philosophers: How much were our ideas shaped by war?". University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. 2 June 2014. Retrieved8 February 2017.
  8. ^"Moral Laws of the Jungle".Philosophy Now. Philosophy Now. 31 January 2014. Retrieved8 January 2017.
  9. ^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.
  10. ^Geoff Crocker.An Enlightened Philosophy: Can an Atheist Believe Anything? John Hunt Publishing, 2011.ISBN 978-1846944246pp. 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 atiainbking.com
  13. ^Chandler Brett (16 July 2014)."24 and Philosophy". Blackwell. Archived fromthe original on 2 January 2016. Retrieved18 December 2019.at
  14. ^Frezzo, Eldo (25 October 2018).Medical Ethics: A Reference Guide. Routledge. p. 5.ISBN 978-1138581074.
  15. ^Zuckerman, Phil (10 September 2019).What it Means to be Moral. Counterpoint. p. 21.ISBN 978-1640092747.
  16. ^ab"Fantastic Fiction: Iain King". Retrieved18 December 2019.
  17. ^"Bookouture snaps up Nazi conspiracy thriller".The Bookseller. Retrieved9 September 2015.
  18. ^"Making Peace in War". British Army Review. 23 December 2014. Retrieved8 February 2017.
  19. ^Iain King (9 November 2019)."Democracy seemed to have won out, but we were wrong". NBC. Retrieved18 December 2019.
  20. ^Iain King (30 September 2019)."Why It's Really Hard to Buy Peace in Afghanistan". Defense One. Retrieved18 December 2019.
  21. ^Iain King (27 November 2019)."NATO".National Interest. Retrieved18 December 2019.

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