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

Getting ISIS Out of Iraq

In op-ed, Prof. Robert Pape considers short- and long-term strategies for dismantling Islamic State’s control in Iraq


Hammer and Anvil

In op-ed, members of CPOST—Prof. Robert Pape, Keven Ruby and Vincent Bauer—discuss strategy of defeating ISIS


Foreign Affairs

Why ISIL Beheads Its Victims

In op-ed, Prof. Robert Pape explains historical basis, strategy behind ISIS's beheading American journalists, British aid workers


Politico

Government data exaggerate the increase in terrorist attacks

In op-ed, Prof. Robert Pape uses data from Chicago Project On Security and Terrorism to argue that terrorist attacks have not increased significantly over the past decade


Russia faces the power of embarrassment: Column

Prof. Robert Pape says United States should use ‘politics of embarrassment’ of Malaysia Airlines disaster to drive wedge between Russia and separatist forces in eastern Ukraine


Politics of Terror

Prof. Robert Pape describes effect of 'homegrown terrorism,' first on U.S. soil since 9/11


MSNBC

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