Robert Pape

Robert Pape is associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he teaches international politics and is the director of the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism. A distinguished scholar of US national security affairs, he is a contributor to The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, and The Washington Post, and has often appeared in the press and on television and radio around the world.

Professor Pape visited Australia in September 2006, when he addressed several conferences on security, gave briefings to policy-makers, politicians, and government agencies, and was widely interviewed on national media.

Books

• Dying to Win: the strategic logic of suicide terrorism (Author)
  

  In this revolutionary analysis, University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape has collected ground-breaking evidence to explain the strategic, social, and individual factors responsible for the growing threat of suicide terrorism.