Mark Curtis (British author)

Mark Curtis is a British historian and journalist who has been involved with several developmental charities. He has written many books on the foreign policy of the United Kingdom and the United States mainly concerning the period since the Second World War.

He studied at the London School of Economics and then was a researcher at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He is a former director of the World Development Movement.

Following many years of involvement in the NGOs Christian Aid and ActionAid (he was director of the branch "Policy and Advocacy" of Christian Aid and the political director of ActionAid), he now works as a writer, journalist and independent consultant. He is a regular participant in political debates and has written articles for such publications as The Guardian, The Independent and Red Pepper in the United Kingdom; Znet in the United States; Frontline in India; and al-Ahram in Egypt.

He is an honorary professor at the University of Strathclyde and was formerly appointed to visiting researcher posts at l'Institut Français des Relations Internationales in Paris and to the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Auswaertige Politik in Bonn.

In 1998 Mark Curtis published The Great Deception: Anglo-American Power and World Order, a work whose stated goal was to shed light on various myths of Anglo-American power in the post-Cold War era. Curtis attempts to demonstrate how the United Kingdom remained a key partner of the United States' effort to enforce their hegemony in the world. He analyses what he refers to as the special relationship between the two countries and concludes that quite serious consequences exist for both states.

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