Charles King este profesor de relatii internationale la Georgetown University. Sustine conferinte centrate in mare parte pe relatiile internationale, violenta sociala si politicile etnice, colaborind, printre altele, cu CNN, National Public Radio, BBC, History Channel si MTV. A publicat articole in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, The Daily Beast si The Times Literary Supplement. De acelasi autor: Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics and International Relations in the Former Soviet Union (1998; in colaborare); Post-Soviet Moldova: A Borderland in Transition (1998); Moldovenii. Romania, Rusia si politica culturala (1999); The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (2008); Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams (2011; premiat cu National Jewish Book Award); Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul (2014).