Honours
- Fisk was made an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of St Andrews on 24 June 2004.
- The Political and Social Sciences department of Ghent University (Belgium) awarded Fisk an honorary doctorate on 24 March 2006.
- He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the American University of Beirut in June 2006.
- Fisk gave the 2005 Edward Said Memorial lecture at Adelaide University.
- Trinity College Dublin awarded him their second, honorary, Doctorate in July 2008.
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Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
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—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
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