Iain King
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 former Fellow of Cambridge University,[4][5][6][1] and is currently a Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.[7]
After seven years work on the Northern Ireland peace process in the 1990s,[7] Iain King held a senior political role in Kosovo’s UN Administration,[8] 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.[9] King's approach has been described as quasi-utilitarian,[10][11] and credited with reconciling competing systems of ethics.[12][13][14]
Secrets of The Last Nazi, based on extensive research of the Nazi era, was King's debut novel, first published in 2015.[15][16] The Sun wrote: "A brilliant but unconventional academic races shadowy agents, a deranged killer and power-mad priests to expose a vast conspiracy."[17] A sequel followed in 2016.[15]
Making Peace in War is about Afghanistan.[18]
King has been featured as a foreign policy analyst on CNN and BBC,[7] and has written for multiple outlets, many of them based in the US, including NBC,[19] Defense One,[20] Prospect,[4] 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
- ^ a b "Iain King". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
- ^ "Queen's birthday honours list 2013: GCB, DBE and CBE" in The Guardian. 15 June 2013. Archived 21 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Birthday Honours lists 2013" at gov
.uk Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine - ^ a b "About the Author: Iain King". Prospect. 24 April 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
- ^ "War Philosophers: How much were our ideas shaped by war?". University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. 2 June 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
- ^ "Philosophy Now". Philosophy Now. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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 at iainbking
.com - ^ Chandler Brett (16 July 2014). "24 and Philosophy". Blackwell. Archived from the original on 2 January 2016. Retrieved 18 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". Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ "Bookouture snaps up Nazi conspiracy thriller". The Bookseller. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
- ^ Tom Wright. Review in The Sun. 16 July 2015, p. 54. Accessed 24 August 2015.
- ^ "Making Peace in War". British Army Review. 23 December 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
- ^ Iain King (9 November 2019). "Democracy seemed to have won out, but we were wrong". NBC. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ Iain King (30 September 2019). "Why It's Really Hard to Buy Peace in Afghanistan". Defense One. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ Iain King (27 November 2019). "NATO". National Interest. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
External links
- "Moral Laws of the Jungle" (article in Philosophy Now magazine)
- "Thinkers At War" (history series on the military experiences of philosophers)
- Author's website
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