Robert Pape
Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Robert A. Pape is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago specializing in international security affairs. He is the director of the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism. Before coming to Chicago in 1999, he taught international relations at Dartmouth College for five years and air power strategy for the USAF's School of Advanced Airpower Studies for three years. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago in 1988 and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pittsburgh in 1982.
Since 9/11, eliminating terrorist leaders through a strategy known as leadership decapitation has emerged as key pillar of the United States’ counterterrorism strategy. Although the U.S. has [...] More
