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]
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