Charles King (author)

Charles King (born 1967) is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University, where he previously served as Chairman of the Faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

He is the author of five books, Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams (W. W. Norton, 2011), Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2010), The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Oxford University Press, 2008), The Black Sea: A History (Oxford University Press, 2004) and The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture (Hoover Institution Press, 2000), as well as articles and essays in World Politics, International Security, Slavic Review, Foreign Affairs, and other academic and popular publications. He teaches courses in comparative politics, East European studies, and international affairs and is a three-time recipient of teaching awards from Georgetown University.

Before coming to Georgetown in 1996, he was the Rank and Manning Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford University, and a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He has appeared on media outlets from CNN and the BBC to the History Channel and MTV.^{[citation needed]}

A former Marshall scholar and Fulbright scholar, King holds a B.A. (History) and B.A. (Philosophy), both summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Arkansas and an M.Phil. (Russian and East European Studies) and D.Phil. (Politics) from Oxford University.

Partial bibliography

• Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams (2011) ISBN 0393070840
• Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe (2010) ISBN 0195370384
• The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (2008) ISBN 0195177754
• The Black Sea: A History (2004) ISBN 0-19-924161-9
• The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture (2000) ISBN 0-8179-9792-X
• Post-Soviet Moldova: A Borderland in Transition (1998) ISBN 973-98091-1-1
• Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics and International Relations in the Former Soviet Union (1998), co-editor, ISBN 0813337380
• Ending Civil Wars (1997) ISBN 0198293437

External links

Biography portal

• Charles King Author Website
• Interview with King on "New Books in History"

Persondata
Name	King, Charles
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1967
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death