Robert Pape

Robert Pape is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, specializing in national and international security affairs. He directs the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and focuses on air power, political violence, terrorism, and US national security policy. Pape is a leading authority on suicide terrorism, economic sanctions, and the effectiveness of air power in military conflicts, and his commentary has appeared in publications and on outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Face the Nation, CNN, NPR, and others. His current work focuses on the causes of suicide terrorism and the politics of unipolarity.