Robert Pape

Robert Pape is exactly the kind of scholar I think public debate needs more of. Based at the University of Chicago, he studies terrorism, suicide attacks, and political violence not with outrage but with rigorous empirical method, and his Chicago Project on Security and Threats brings hard data to topics that usually generate only heat. I value how he resists the panic that surrounds these subjects, insisting instead on patterns and evidence. In a noisy field, he is a steadying, serious voice.

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Name (English)

Robert Pape

Name (Japanese)

ロバート・ペイプ

Reading

ろばーと・ぺいぷ

Born

April 24, 1960 (age 66)

Origin

Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

political scientist / university teacher / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rat

University

University of Chicago

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Pape
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%97
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1892093

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• political scientist
• university teacher
• writer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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