BCSIA Student/Fellows Session

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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Student/Fellows Session with Robert Pape, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and author of the new book, “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.” (Random House, June 2005)

Robert A, Pape is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago specializing in international security affairs.   His publications include Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (Random House  June 2005); Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Cornell 1996), "Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work," International Security (1997), "The Determinants of International Moral Action," International Organization (1999), "The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism," American Political Science Review (August 2003), "The True Worth of Air Power," Foreign Affairs (March/April 2004), and “Soft Balancing against the United States,” International Security (Summer 2005).    His commentary on international security policy has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, as well as on Nightline, ABC News with Peter Jennings, CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Lou Dobbs, FOX's John Gipson, CNN International, and National Public Radio.   Before going 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.   His current work focuses on the origins of suicide terrorism and the logic of soft balancing in a unipolar world