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

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in the 2013 Birthday Honours, for services to governance in Libya, Afghanistan and Kosovo. He is a Scholar at the Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy at West Point, Modern War Institute and a former Fellow at the

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, and at

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Biography

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 '' International Journal'', 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
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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

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and

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, and has written for multiple outlets, many of them based in the US, including NBC, Defense One, Prospect, 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. *King, Iain (2023), with Deane-Peter Baker, Rufus Black, and Roger Herbert. ''Ethics at War: How Should Military Personnel Make Ethical Decisions?''. Routledge.

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
{{DEFAULTSORT:King, Iain Living people 1971 births Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford Commanders of the Order of the British Empire People from Gloucestershire Utilitarians 21st-century British philosophers Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts