In the Media
Podcasts & Videos
• “Libyan Floods and Faultlines: A Conversation with Ethan Chorin,” James Dorsey’s The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer — September 12, 2023
• “It’s Been 10 Years Since The Benghazi Attacks,” The Takeaway, WNYC Radio, NPR — September 13, 2022
• “Benghazi w/ Ethan Chorin (#267),” The Road to Now — April 3, 2023
• “How Benghazi Continues to Warp America,” The Gist — March 16, 2023
• “Benghazi attack with Ethan Chorin,” The Hipstorians Podcast— June 30, 2023
• “The Impact of the Attack in Benghazi and the War in Libya on American Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy,” Middle East Transregional Institute, Princeton University (TRI) — September 27, 2022
• Discussion from the National Council on US Libya Relations — December 9, 2022
• Ethan Chorin talks Benghazi! with Whitney Hischier at Book Passage — December 8, 2022
• “Ethan Chorin Interview,” The Curious Mans Podcast — December 6, 2022
• Ethan Chorin on Humphrey Hawksley’s Inside Story (UK) — December 1, 2022
• “Author Ethan Chorin, Benghazi!,” Point of the Spear Podcast — November 16, 2022
• “Benghazi with Ethan Chorin,” Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein — October 24, 2022
• “At 10th anniversary of Benghazi attack, former diplomat offers context in new book,” WUNC Radio, NPR— September 6, 2022
Partial List of Articles
• “The Unthinkable Has Happened in Libya,” New York Times Guest Opinion — September 13, 2023
• “Too many Libyan powerbrokers prefer the broken status quo to elections,” The National News Opinion — September 1, 2023
• “Benghazi’s effect on US foreign policy and domestic politics remains overlooked,” The National News Opinion — April 4, 2023
• “The Storm Before the Storm,” review of Prof. Helen Lackner’s Yemen: Poverty and Conflict, Arab Digest — December 2022
• “From COP27, The Call Of A Green Blue Deal.” Forbes — November 17, 2022
• “Benghazi! The day that launched America’s dizzying downward spiral — and I was there.” Salon — November 6, 2022
• “The best books that explain how partisan politics is destroying American foreign policy” Shepherd — July 2023
• “America Skipped Benghazi’s 10th Anniversary. This Is Why It Matters.” Forbes — October 3, 2022
• “10 years on from Benghazi, critical lessons still unlearned for America and its foreign policy,” The Berkshire Eagle — September 10, 2022
• “What the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict-Does and Doesn’t Mean for the Abraham Accords,” Forbes — May 16, 2021
• “Libya’s Perpetual Chaos,” Foreign Affairs — April 19, 2019
• “NATO’s Libya Intervention and the continued case for a Responsibility to Rebuild,” Boston University International Law Journal — Summer 2013
• “The Future of the U.S.-Libya Commercial Relationship,” in Vandewalle, Dirk, Libya since 1969: Qadhafi’s Revolution Revisited, Palgrave-MacMillan — 2008
• “What Libya Lost,” New York Times — September 13, 2012
• “The Deeper Blame for Benghazi,” New York Times — May 14, 2013
• “The New Danger in Benghazi,” New York Times — May 28, 2014
• “The New Pirates of Libya,” Foreign Policy — March 2, 2015
• “The U.S. Commercial Guide to Libya,” U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Commerce — 2006
• “The Graffiti of Benghazi,” Words Without Borders — July 2011
• “New Government May Cause Splits,” Prospect Magazine — August 14, 2015
• “Setting the Record Straight on Benghazi,” Foreign Affairs — February 10, 2010
• “A Curious Twist of Fate for Libya and its Rogue General,” Forbes — December 22, 2015
• “Homeless rats: A parable for postrevolution Libya,” Words Without Borders — January 2012
• “Articulating a Dubai Model of Development: The Case of Djibouti,” Dubai School of Government — 2010 (monograph)