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

Boston bombing investigation

Prof. Robert Pape believes bombs, designed to maim and not kill, don't fit profile of al-Qaeda


UC terrorism expert: Boston bombings show signs of 'coordinated attack'

Prof. Robert Pape believes bombs designed to wound, not kill; draw attention to cause


Fox Chicago News

Why We Shouldn’t Attack Syria (Yet)

Prof. Robert Pape writes that unlike Libya, no viable option exists for international humanitarian intervention


Terrorism research gains world’s attention

Following Osama bin Laden’s death, experts like Robert Pape and Jenna Jordan ponder nation’s next steps.


Jeremy Manier

How the U.S. Can Finish Off al-Qaeda

Prof. Robert Pape and postdoctoral scholar Jenna Jordan write that military strategy must shift in wake of Osama bin Laden's death


The Next Step in Libya

Prof. Robert Pape believes coalition should provide economic aid to Benghazi, eastern Libya


Time

A Plan for Libya

Prof. Robert Pape says humanitarian aid is best course in resolving Libyan crisis


Time

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