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 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]

King (centre) in Afghanistan, 2009

Biography

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.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