Robert A. Pape is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago specializing in international security affairs. 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. His major areas of interest include:

• International Relations Theory
• National Security Affairs
• Causes of Suicide Terrorism
• Politics of Unipolarity

• Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (2005)
• Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Cornell 1996)
• "Soft Balancing against the United States," International Security (2005)
• "Explaining Costly International Moral Action" (with Chaim Kaufmann), International Organization (1999)
• "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 (2003)

• Newspapers: The New York Times / Washington Post / Boston Globe / Los Angeles Times
• Journals: New Republic / Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
• TV & Radio: Nightline / ABC News / CBS News / CNN / Fox News / National Public Radio