Mark Curtis

Mark Curtis      ( author,  journalist)
Alma mater	•  UCL/Goldsmiths’ College •  London School of Economics
Founder/Owner of	Mark Curtis' Website
Interests	UK/Foreign policy
Journalist

Mark Curtis is a British author, journalist and researcher specialising in international affairs, Trade and UK-US foreign policy.

Education

He is a graduate of Goldsmiths’ College, University of London and the London School of Economics.

Career

Curtis is a former Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and Director of the World Development Movement. He is currently (2011) an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde and has been Visiting Research Fellow at the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales, Paris and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Auswartige Politik, Bonn.

Alongside his work as an analyst of British foreign policy, Curtis has worked in the field of international development for 18 years, including as Head of Global Advocacy and Policy at Christian Aid and Head of Policy at ActionAid .

Writings

Curtis has written six books and numerous articles on British and US foreign policies and international development and trade issues. His most recent books are:

• ISBN 1846687632 Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam (Serpent’s Tail, 2010)
• ISBN 0099469723 Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses (Vintage, 2004)
• ISBN 0099448394 Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World, (Vintage, 2003)
• ISBN 0904379493 Trade for Life: Making Trade Work for Poor People (Christian Aid, 2001)
• ISBN 0745312349 The Great Deception: Anglo-American Power and World Order (Pluto, 1998)
• ISBN 1856493482 The Ambiguities of Power: British Foreign Policy since 1945 (Zed, 1995).

 

Documents by Mark Curtis

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Covert War in Indonesia 1957-58	book extract	12 February 2007	Indonesia	An edited extract from Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses ISBN 0099469723
Document:Assange Judge is 40-year "good friend" of Minister who orchestrated his arrest	Article	2 December 2021	Julian Assange Alan Duncan William Hague Wafic Saïd Lenín Moreno David Ross Ian Burnett	Julian Assange’s fate lies in the hands of an Appeal Judge who is a close friend of Sir Alan Duncan - the former Foreign Office minister who called Assange a “miserable little worm” in Parliament
Document:Britain and the Muslim Brotherhood	book extract	18 December 2010	Muslim Brotherhood Egypt Suez Canal	An edited extract from Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam (Serpent's Tail, 2010) ISBN 1846687632
Document:British Intervention in British Guiana 1953	book extract	12 February 2007	Guyana
Document:Covert War in Yemen 1962-70	book extract	13 February 2007	Yemen
Document:Depopulation of the Chagos Islands 1965-73	book extract	12 February 2007	Chagos Archipelago Chagos Archipelago/Depopulation
Document:Iraq’s attack on the Kurds 1963-65	book extract	12 February 2007	Iraq Iraqi Kurds
Document:Nigeria war over Biafra	book extract	13 February 2007	Nigeria Biafra C. Odumegwu Ojukwu	An edited extract from Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses
Document:Slaughter in Indonesia 1965-66	book extract	12 February 2007	Indonesia	An edited extract from Web of Deceit: Britain’s real Role in the World ISBN 0099448394
Document:The Coup in Iran 1953	book extract	12 February 2007	Iran/1953 Coup	An edited extract from Web of Deceit: Britain’s real Role in the World ISBN 0099448394
Document:The Mau Mau War in Kenya 1952-60	book extract	12 February 2007	Kenya Mau Mau Uprising	An edited extract from Web of Deceit: Britain’s real Role in the World ISBN 0099448394
Document:The Pinochet Coup in Chile	book extract	12 February 2007	Augusto Pinochet Salvador Allende Chile/1973 coup UK/Foreign policy
Document:The Rise of Idi Amin in Uganda	book extract	13 February 2007	Uganda Idi Amin	An edited extract from Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses. ISBN 0099469723
Document:The US war in Vietnam 1961-75	book extract	13 February 2007	Vietnam War	An edited extract from Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses ISBN 0099469723
Document:The War in Malaya 1948-60	book extract	13 February 2007	Malaysia	An edited extract from Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World ISBN 0099448394
Document:War in Oman 1957-59	book extract	12 February 2007	Oman	Extract from Mark Curtis' book Unpeople: ISBN 0099469723

 

A Quote by Mark Curtis

Page	Quote	Date	Source
Sky	“A study by Declassified, covering 203 articles written by Deborah Haynes, Alistair Bunkall and Dominic Waghorn, has found that Sky routinely amplifies the views of the UK government in its military and foreign policies and provides almost no serious attempts to independently scrutinise or criticise them... Two of the reporters, Haynes and Bunkall, offered no serious critical coverage of UK military or foreign policies or the human rights abuses committed, by offered no serious critical coverage of UK military or foreign policies or the human rights abuses committed by Britain’s close allies, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel, which all receive substantial UK military and other support. Waghorn’s articles offered only very occasional critical coverage. In Sky’s written outputs, British government officials and their claims are routinely quoted favourably, with little or no independent commentary, context, or qualifications provided by the journalists.”	1 February 2021	Global Research

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See also

• Curtis Research - International Development research web site