Robert Pape

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Full Name	Robert Pape
Occupation	Political Scientist
Date Of Birth	Apr 24, 1960(1960-04-24)
Age	64
Birthplace	Erie
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Taurus

Robert Pape Biography

Robert Pape is one of the most popular and richest Political Scientist who was born on April 24, 1960 in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.

Robert Anthony Pape Jr. (born April 24, 1960) is an American political scientist known for his work on international security affairs, especially the coercive strategies of air power and the rationale of suicide terrorism. He is currently a professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and founder and director of the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST). In early October 2010, the University of Chicago press released Pape’s third book, co-authored with James K. Feldman, Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It.

Pape graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1982 from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was a Harry S Truman Scholar from the state of Pennsylvania, majoring in political science, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1988 in the same field. During his doctoral program he was a teaching assistant for a class taught by the high-profile realist international relations scholar John Mearsheimer. He taught international relations at Dartmouth College from 1994 to 1999 and air power strategy at the United States Air Force’s School of Advanced Airpower Studies from 1991 to

1994. Since 1999, he has taught at the University of Chicago, where he is now tenured. In the past he has done significant work on coercive air power and economic sanctions. He defines the focus of his current work as “the causes of suicide terrorism and the politics of unipolarity.” In addition to his research and teaching duties, Pape has been the director of the graduate studies department of political science as well as the chair of the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. Since 1999 he has co- directed the Program on International Security Policy with Mearsheimer, and since 2004 he has directed CPOST.

Robert Pape Net Worth

Robert Pape is one of the richest Political Scientist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert Pape 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Elsewhere, Pape has continued his criticisms of the idea that wars can be won through air power alone. In his book, Pape denies strategic bombing can have strategic effect under any circumstances. He argues that the use of air power for punishment, that is, attacking civilian and economic targets (such as in Operation Rolling Thunder or the firebombing of Japan in 1945), has almost universally failed in coercing targets. Instead, Pape suggests that successful usage of air power has come when it is used against conventional military targets and denies the target the ability to achieve their aims (such as in Operation Linebacker).

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A 1999 RAND report funded by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) “explored the role of air power as a coercive instrument”, attempting to rebut Pape’s claim. They concluded that, “Although the United States and the USAF have scored some notable successes, the record is mixed.” Horowitz and Reiter applied “multivariate probit analysis [to] all instances of air power coercion from 1917 to 1999”. Their quantitative analyses essentially matched Pape’s qualitative assessment that attacking military targets has improved the chances of success, but “higher levels of civilian vulnerability have no effect on the chances of coercion success”.

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Pape’s Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (2005) contradicts many widely held beliefs about suicide terrorism. Based on an analysis of every known case of suicide terrorism from 1980 to 2003 (315 attacks as part of 18 campaigns), he concludes that there is “little connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, or any one of the world’s religions… . Rather, what nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland” (p. 4). “The taproot of suicide terrorism is nationalism,” he argues; it is “an extreme strategy for national liberation” (pp. 79–80). Pape’s work examines groups such as the Al-Qaeda to the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers. Pape also notably provides further evidence to a growing body of literature that finds that the majority of suicide terrorists do not come from impoverished or uneducated backgrounds, but rather have middle class origins and a significant level of education.