Now based in London, his previous postings include Beijing, Moscow and the Middle East. lieutenant is "a nuanced study that demonstrates the continuity of conflict between the United States. and Russia", and discusses the emergence of a new "Cold War" in the 2000s (decade). He has twice been named to Foreign Policy magazine"s Top 100 global "Twitterati" for his commentary via the social media network Twitter.
MacKinnon first book, The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union was published in 2007 by Random House in Canada, and by Carroll and Graf in the United States. MacKinnon has interviewed Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, as well as King Abdullah II of Jordan and former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
