1. Robert Anthony Pape is an American political scientist who studies national and international security affairs, with a focus on air power, political violence, social media propaganda, and terrorism.
14 Facts About Robert Pape
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Robert Pape is currently a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and founder and director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats.
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Robert Pape taught international relations at Dartmouth College from 1994 to 1999 and at the United States Air Force's School of Advanced Airpower Studies from 1991 to 1994.
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Robert Pape published his first full-length book in 1996, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War, which assesses the efficacy of different airpower strategies.
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Robert Pape argues that air power and land power should be integrated and used together in a "hammer and anvil" fashion.
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In 1997 and 1998, Robert Pape published two articles examining the efficacy of economic sanctions.
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Robert Pape published several articles analyzing the Arab Spring in 2013.
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Robert Pape's Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism challenges claims that suicide terrorism is irrational.
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Robert Pape argues instead that there is a strategic logic to suicide terrorism: suicide terrorism is an effective way to attain significant concessions from modern liberal democracies on issues that are not a vital interest to those democracies.
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In May 2019, Robert Pape participated in the Christchurch Call, a plan launched by Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron to end the promotion of extremist content online.
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Robert Pape presented his research on ISIS propaganda videos to organizations such as the FBI, BOP, SSCI, NCTC, NSC, and SOCOM.
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In 2017, Robert Pape published an analysis of political violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan.
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In January 2018, Robert Pape testified before the House Subcommittee on National Security on the military defeat of ISIS.
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Since 2020, Robert Pape has focused increasingly on American political violence while maintaining his research on international terrorism.