Iain Benjamin King is a British writer. King was appointed a

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in the

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, for services to governance in Libya, Afghanistan and Kosovo. He is a Scholar at the Modern War Institute,

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, Modern War Institute and a former Fellow at the

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, and at

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. After seven years work on the Northern Ireland peace process in the 1990s, Iain King held a senior political role in Kosovo’s UN Administration,Oisín Tansey
Review of ''Peace at Any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo'' by Iain King, Whit Mason
in ''

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'', Vol. 62, No. 3, "What Kind of Security? Afghanistan and Beyond" (Summer, 2007), pp. 717-720. 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.Geoff Crocker
''An Enlightened Philosophy: Can an Atheist Believe Anything?''
John Hunt Publishing, 2011.
pp. 85–86
/ref> King's approach has been described as quasi-

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,How to Make Good Decisions… a 62 Point Summary
at and credited with reconciling competing systems of ethics.at '' Secrets of The Last Nazi'', based on extensive research of the

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era, was King's

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, first published in 2015. A sequel followed in 2016. ''Making Peace in War'' is about

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. King has been featured as a foreign policy analyst on CNN and BBC, and has written for multiple outlets, many of them based in the US, including

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, Defense One,

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, and

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Bibliography

* * *King, Iain (2014). ''Making Peace in War''. Amazon Media. *King, Iain (2015). '' Secrets of The Last Nazi''. Bookouture. *King, Iain (2016). ''Last Prophecy of Rome''. Bookouture.

References

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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