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]

King (centre) in Afghanistan, 2009

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]