Preston King, a political philosopher, has held chairs at the University of Nairobi, the University of New South Wales (Sydney), and Lancaster University. He is a visiting professor in the Leadership Center at Morehouse College (Atlanta), and in the philosophy department at the University of East Anglia (UK). He is the author of such books as Fear of Power, The Ideology of Order, Toleration, Federalism and Federation, along with Thinking Past A Problem: Essays on the History of Ideas (2000). He is the founder and co-editor of CRISPP (Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy). With H. Devere, he co-edited (2000) The Challenge to Friendship in Modernity.