Zach Dorfman is a national security reporter and former Carnegie Council Senior Fellow.
His work has appeared in Politico, The Atlantic, Atavist Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, and The Nation, among other publications.
He was one of the winners of the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting in 2018.
Previously, he was a full-time senior editor at Ethics & International Affairs, the quarterly journal of the Carnegie Council, where he commissioned features, essays, and reviews on issues of war and peace, the environment, international institutions, foreign policy, and more.
Featured Work
JUN 18, 2015 • Podcast
An Interview with Jim Sleeper on the Future of Liberal Education
Is anything in liberal education nonnegotiable? In this EIA interview, Jim Sleeper, author of "Innocents Abroad: Liberal Educators in Illiberal Societies," published in the journal's ...
JUN 12, 2015 • Podcast
Introduction to "Ethics & International Affairs," Summer 2015
In this podcast, Senior Editor Zach Dorfman introduces the journal's summer issue. Topics discussed include essays on liberal education in illiberal societies, and on Edward ...
MAY 28, 2015 • Podcast
An Interview with Shefa Siegel on Liberia, Ebola, and the Cult of Bankable Projects
It's not for lack of money that international organizations failed to prevent the disastrous spread of Ebola, says Shefa Siegel. It's for lack of flexibility ...
MAR 24, 2015 • Podcast
Introduction to "Ethics & International Affairs," Spring 2015
In this podcast, Zach Dorfman introduces the spring 2015 issue of "Ethics & International Affairs." Topics include a symposium on imagining a "Drone Accountability Regime"; Liberia, Ebola, ...
DEC 16, 2014 • Podcast
Introduction to "Ethics & International Affairs," Winter 2014
In this podcast, Zach Dorfman introduces the winter 2014 issue of "Ethics & International Affairs." Topics include "cultures of humanitarianism" in East Asia; torture and norm death; ...
DEC 3, 2014 • Podcast
An Introduction to Centennial Ebook of Roundtables from "Ethics & International Affairs"
In this podcast, Zach Dorfman introduces the Centennial collection of roundtables on the most critical issues facing the world today: the idea of a global ...
OCT 15, 2014 • Article
The Ottoman Road to War: Mustafa Aksakal on the Ottomans' Fateful Decision
Why did the Ottoman Empire side with Germany in World War I? It was a rational decision, given the circumstances at the time, argues Aksakal. ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Article
Mary Dudziak on Civil Liberties During WWI and Beyond
"Just as the nation is perpetually focused on security, we must also be perpetually focused on maintaining constitutional liberty."
AUG 19, 2014 • Article
A Clear and Present Danger: Why We Need the UN Security Council to Help Defeat ISIL
The relentless advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant poses an existential threat to countries of the region and a grave challenge ...
MAY 21, 2014 • Article
"The Past is Another Country:" The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a triumph of one vision--one history--of one America over another. Clay Risen's "The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle ...