Robert Pape

Robert Pape

Robert Pape specializes in international security affairs and is director of the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism. His current work focuses on US national security, air power, economic sanctions, suicide terrorism and related issues. His commentary on international security policy has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, as well as on ABC, the BBC and National Public Radio.

In addition, he is the director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats at UChicago with the mission to produce top international security scholarship with policy relevance, in order to reduce security threats and enhance stability across the world. 

His publications include the books Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (2005), Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (1996) and Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop it (2010). 

Pape Stories

Does Killing Terrorist Leaders Make Any Difference? Scholars Are Doubtful

Prof. Robert Pape discusses effectiveness of leadership decapitation strategies on terrorist groups


ISIS and the Culture of Narcissism

Prof. Robert Pape analyzes how Hollywood-style narratives cultivate vanity in ISIS supporters


The other reason ISIS is cheering after Orlando attacks

Prof. Robert Pape advises against deploying ground troops to fight ISIS


Christian Science Monitor

Orlando shooting shows how ISIS calls the shots

In op-ed, Prof. Robert Pape analyzes influence of ISIS on ‘lone wolf’ terrorists


Boston Globe

The Ted Cruz solution won't stop terrorism in the U.S.

In op-ed, Prof. Robert Pape writes that patrolling Muslim neighborhoods ‘would not just jeopardize the liberties of a few, it would harm the security of us all’


A new normal for Europe

In op-ed, Prof. Robert Pape argues that territorial losses at home have forced ISIS to expand its operations in Europe


Boston Globe

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