Zach Dorfman

Yahoo News; Former Senior Fellow, Ethics, Technology, and U.S. Foreign Policy and Fellow, "The Living Legacy of the First World War"

Zach Dorfman is a national security correspondent for Yahoo News 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

JUL 29, 2011 Article

Tragedy, Then Farce: Israel, Palestine, the United States, and the UN Vote for Palestinian Statehood

When it comes to the question of a Palestinian state, anything is possible. Which, given the frustrating and enduring problems attendant to the issue, is ...

Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town

MAY 18, 2011 Article

Blood Brothers

A work of taut and absorbing beauty, Christopher de Bellaigue's "Rebel Land" documents the author's journey to and exploration of the area known as eastern ...

Map of Syria  (CIA Factbook)

APR 26, 2010 Article

Pursuing a "Syrian Strategy" for Arab-Israeli Peace

A Syrian-Israeli Peace Treaty brokered by the U.S. could create the conditions for the kind of confidence-building measures between Israel and the Palestinian National ...