Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert A Pape

Following what the FBI called a "targeted terror attack" in Boulder, Colorado were 8 people were injured by a man attacking them with a flame thrower and Molotov cocktails. The victims who were burned were marching in a parade in support of Israel. Michael turns to Dr. Robert A. Pape, who has researched and taught on this is type of violence, for expertise. He is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago specializing in international security affairs. Original air date 2 June 2025.

Professor Robert A. Pape from the Department of Political Science discusses how his early research interest in air power and international political violence brought him to sit with military officers and policy decision-makers on various occasions. Professor Pape also expanded his interest in national security and democracy as he continued his research and teaching path at the University of Chicago, and directs the Chicago Project on Security & Threats (CPOST). Tune in to listen to his thoughts on the upcoming presidential election.

Get Ready To Rumble John Spencer is an award-winning scholar, professor, author, combat veteran, national security and military analyst, and internationally recognized expert and advisor on urban warfare, military strategy, tactics, and other related topics. Considered one of the world's leading experts on urban warfare, he served as an advisor to the top four-star general and other senior leaders in the U.S. Army as part of strategic research groups from the Pentagon to the United States Military Academy. He's authored over 130 articles in our leading intellectual publications. He is the author of three books, including The Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender, which was translated into 16 languages. Robert A. Pape is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago specializing in international security affairs. 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, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and National Public Radio. 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 PhD 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 causes of suicide terrorism and the politics of unipolarity. He is the director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats. 0:00 Introduction 3:36 Coin Toss Decision 5:30 Robert Opening Pape's Argument 11:20 John Spencer's Counterargument 15:53 Pape Responds 29:53 Assessing Hamas's Strategic Goals 34:00 Critique on Planning for the Future 37:13 Rebuilding Democracy in the Middle East 41:01 Pape's Preferred Israeli Strategies for October 8th 42:46 Creating a Wedge Strategy 47:09 Insights from General McChrystal 49:42 Differing Military Strategies 50:23 Debating Military Approaches 51:38 Winning Battles vs. Winning Wars 55:58 Political Power Dynamics 59:00 Importance of Words in Strategy 1:01:27 Acknowledging Past Mistakes 1:04:53 Counterinsurgency Strategies 1:08:36 Role of Threat in Strategy 1:10:20 Separating Militant Groups 1:12:05 Achieving Strategic Objectives 1:12:09 Counterinsurgency Tactics 1:14:20 Importance of Meaningful Conversations 1:14:38 Sharp Arguments and Surviving Contact with the Enemy

Get Ready To Rumble John Spencer is an award-winning scholar, professor, author, combat veteran, national security and military analyst, and internationally recognized expert and advisor on urban warfare, military strategy, tactics, and other related topics. Considered one of the world's leading experts on urban warfare, he served as an advisor to the top four-star general and other senior leaders in the U.S. Army as part of strategic research groups from the Pentagon to the United States Military Academy. He's authored over 130 articles in our leading intellectual publications. He is the author of three books, including The Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender, which was translated into 16 languages. Robert A. Pape is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago specializing in international security affairs. 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, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and National Public Radio. 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 PhD 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 causes of suicide terrorism and the politics of unipolarity. He is the director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats. 0:00 Introduction 3:36 Coin Toss Decision 5:30 Robert Opening Pape's Argument 11:20 John Spencer's Counterargument 15:53 Pape Responds 29:53 Assessing Hamas's Strategic Goals 34:00 Critique on Planning for the Future 37:13 Rebuilding Democracy in the Middle East 41:01 Pape's Preferred Israeli Strategies for October 8th 42:46 Creating a Wedge Strategy 47:09 Insights from General McChrystal 49:42 Differing Military Strategies 50:23 Debating Military Approaches 51:38 Winning Battles vs. Winning Wars 55:58 Political Power Dynamics 59:00 Importance of Words in Strategy 1:01:27 Acknowledging Past Mistakes 1:04:53 Counterinsurgency Strategies 1:08:36 Role of Threat in Strategy 1:10:20 Separating Militant Groups 1:12:05 Achieving Strategic Objectives 1:12:09 Counterinsurgency Tactics 1:14:20 Importance of Meaningful Conversations 1:14:38 Sharp Arguments and Surviving Contact with the Enemy

Scott is joined by Robert A. Pape to discuss the dangerously flawed assumptions behind Israel's strategy in Gaza and with the Palestinians more broadly. Scott and Pape talk about how these same mistakes have been made numerous times in recent decades by the United States and Russia, always with the same bad results. They also touch on the difficulties the Israeli government would encounter if it attempted to take full control of the West Bank. Discussed on the show: “Israel's Failed Bombing Campaign in Gaza” (Foreign Affairs) “It's All About Provoking Your Reaction” (Antiwar.com) The Perils of Dominance by Gareth Porter “I didn't suggest we kill Palestinians” (Jerusalem Post) Robert A. Pape is Professor of Political Science and Director of the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats and the author of Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War. Follow him on Twitter @ProfessorPape This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Moon Does Artisan Coffee; Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott's interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Download Episode. Scott is joined by Robert A. Pape to discuss the dangerously flawed assumptions behind Israel's strategy in Gaza and with the Palestinians more broadly. Scott and Pape talk about how these same mistakes have been made numerous times in recent decades by the United States and Russia, always with the same bad results. They also touch on the difficulties the Israeli government would encounter if it attempted to take full control of the West Bank. Discussed on the show: “Israel's Failed Bombing Campaign in Gaza” (Foreign Affairs) “It's All About Provoking Your Reaction” (Antiwar.com) The Perils of Dominance by Gareth Porter “I didn't suggest we kill Palestinians” (Jerusalem Post) Robert A. Pape is Professor of Political Science and Director of the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats and the author of Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War. Follow him on Twitter @ProfessorPape This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Moon Does Artisan Coffee; Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott's interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY

On this edition of Parallax Views, we continue our coverage of the Gaza War and Israel/Palestine. Robert A. Pape, a Professor of Political at the University of Chicago specializing in international security studies (and author of such books as Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It with James Feldman; Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War) joins the show to discuss his Foreign Affairs piece "Israel's Failed Bombing Campaign in Gaza: Collective Punishment Won't Defeat Hamas". We discuss why, based on Pape's research, the likely outcome of Israel's bombardment of Gaza, which has claimed thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians, will result in radicalizing more Palestinian/bolstering support for Hamas. We'll also discuss the problems with Israel's justification for the nature of it's bombing campaign (specifically its invocation of the Allied bombing of Dresden and Hamburg in WWII), the Israeli concept paper that argued for pushing Gazans into Egypt's Sinai, the bait-and-bleed strategy of terrorism (in which a violent non-state actor seeks to engender and extreme response from a state actor in order to bolster support for itself), the Abraham Accords, and much, much more.

Luisteraars! ‘This is a cold and dead place.' Dat was de conclusie van een Britse abolitionist – iemand die streed tegen de slavernij – toen hij in 1841 een bezoek bracht aan Nederland. Er bleek geen animo te zijn voor een nationale vereniging tegen de slavernij. De gereformeerden wilden niet samenwerken met de liberalen, omdat die laatsten hun vergadering niet openden met gebed. De voorzitter van de gereformeerde vereniging van abolitionisten merkte op ‘dat de handhaving van het christelijk beginsel (…) van meer belang is, dan de aanwinst van nieuwe leden.' De Nederlandse anti-slavernijbeweging heeft nooit veel voorgesteld De pijnlijke waarheid is dat de Nederlandse anti-slavernijbeweging nooit veel heeft voorgesteld. In 1842 kwamen de abolitionisten met drie afzonderlijke petities. Eén petitie van de gereformeerden, één petitie van de liberalen en één petitie van een groep Rotterdamse vrouwen. Die laatste was de grootste, maar kreeg alsnog maar 128 handtekeningen. Ter vergelijking: in 1853 werd een petitie tegen de katholieken 200.000 keer getekend. In het afgelopen jaar heb ik (Rutger) me ondergedompeld in het historisch onderzoek naar de beweging om de slavernij voor eens en altijd af te schaffen. En wat blijkt: dat is een nogal Brits verhaal. Nederland was namelijk niet het enige land waar het abolitionisme weinig voorstelde. Ook in Portugal, Spanje en Frankrijk waren de omvang en impact marginaal. In Groot-Brittannië daarentegen groeide het uit tot een enorme beweging. In 1833 tekende maar liefst een op de vijf volwassen mannen een petitie om de slavernij af te schaffen. Wat maakte Engeland anders? En hoe belangrijk was het abolitionisme eigenlijk? Was de slavernij niet sowieso verdwenen, ook als de Britse beweging een vroege dood was gestorven? Waren er diepere economische en technologische oorzaken voor het einde van de slavernij? Of hebben de tot slaaf gemaakten gewoon zichzelf bevrijd? En wat kunnen we vandaag nog leren van de abolitionisten? Over die vragen hebben we het in deze podcast. Leesvoer bij deze aflevering: • Jesse zijn voordracht tijdens de Herman Tjeenk Willink-lezing is te vinden op de website van de Raad van State. (https://corr.es/990282) • In een eerdere aflevering spraken we over effectief altruïsme: Een modale Nederlander behoort tot de rijkste 3,5 procent van de wereld. Waarom geven we toch zo weinig aan goede doelen? (https://corr.es/adc2fd) En Rutger vertelde al eerder over het abolitionisme, quakers en de slavenhandel: Zo verander je de wereld: de lessen van de anti-slavernijbeweging. (https://corr.es/1dcfa7) • Rutger noemde ook het essay Explaining Costly International Moral Action: Britain's Sixty-year Campaign Against the Atlantic Slave Trade van Chaim D. Kaufmann en Robert A. Pape. (corr.es/223e13) Als altijd zijn we benieuwd naar jullie gedachten, vragen een leestips. We zijn te bereiken op rudienfreddieshow@decorrespondent.nl

Luisteraars! ‘This is a cold and dead place.' Dat was de conclusie van een Britse abolitionist – iemand die streed tegen de slavernij – toen hij in 1841 een bezoek bracht aan Nederland. Er bleek geen animo te zijn voor een nationale vereniging tegen de slavernij. De gereformeerden wilden niet samenwerken met de liberalen, omdat die laatsten hun vergadering niet openden met gebed. De voorzitter van de gereformeerde vereniging van abolitionisten merkte op ‘dat de handhaving van het christelijk beginsel (…) van meer belang is, dan de aanwinst van nieuwe leden.' De Nederlandse anti-slavernijbeweging heeft nooit veel voorgesteld De pijnlijke waarheid is dat de Nederlandse anti-slavernijbeweging nooit veel heeft voorgesteld. In 1842 kwamen de abolitionisten met drie afzonderlijke petities. Eén petitie van de gereformeerden, één petitie van de liberalen en één petitie van een groep Rotterdamse vrouwen. Die laatste was de grootste, maar kreeg alsnog maar 128 handtekeningen. Ter vergelijking: in 1853 werd een petitie tegen de katholieken 200.000 keer getekend. In het afgelopen jaar heb ik (Rutger) me ondergedompeld in het historisch onderzoek naar de beweging om de slavernij voor eens en altijd af te schaffen. En wat blijkt: dat is een nogal Brits verhaal. Nederland was namelijk niet het enige land waar het abolitionisme weinig voorstelde. Ook in Portugal, Spanje en Frankrijk waren de omvang en impact marginaal. In Groot-Brittannië daarentegen groeide het uit tot een enorme beweging. In 1833 tekende maar liefst een op de vijf volwassen mannen een petitie om de slavernij af te schaffen. Wat maakte Engeland anders? En hoe belangrijk was het abolitionisme eigenlijk? Was de slavernij niet sowieso verdwenen, ook als de Britse beweging een vroege dood was gestorven? Waren er diepere economische en technologische oorzaken voor het einde van de slavernij? Of hebben de tot slaaf gemaakten gewoon zichzelf bevrijd? En wat kunnen we vandaag nog leren van de abolitionisten? Over die vragen hebben we het in deze podcast. Als altijd zijn we benieuwd naar jullie gedachten, vragen een leestips. We zijn te bereiken op rudienfreddieshow@decorrespondent.nl Leesvoer bij deze uitzending • Jesse zijn voordracht tijdens de Herman Tjeenk Willink-lezing is te vinden op de website van de Raad van State. (https://corr.es/990282) • In een eerdere aflevering spraken we over effectief altruïsme: Een modale Nederlander behoort tot de rijkste 3,5 procent van de wereld. Waarom geven we toch zo weinig aan goede doelen? (https://corr.es/adc2fd) En Rutger vertelde al eerder over het abolitionisme, quakers en de slavenhandel: Zo verander je de wereld: de lessen van de anti-slavernijbeweging. (https://corr.es/1dcfa7) • Rutger noemde ook het essay Explaining Costly International Moral Action: Britain's Sixty-year Campaign Against the Atlantic Slave Trade van Chaim D. Kaufmann en Robert A. Pape. (corr.es/223e13)

In this special extended Podcast, I'd like to about Ukraine in three segments: History…how did we get here? Current situation…what is going on? Options…where do we go from here? I'm also pleased to welcome, Prof. Robert A. Pape joining in what is a big subject.

0:00 - Dan & Amy react to yesterday's Lightfoot/CPS press conference  11:43 - Dan & Amy take callers reaction to the CPS/CTU fight 28:44 - Dan & Amy want Aaron Rogers on their team  48:14 - CPS teacher, Joseph Ocol, shares why he believes teachers need to be in the classroom. Watch Joseph on Tucker Carlson last night  01:07:08 - Senior Contributor for American Greatness, Julie Kelly, looks at the Lingering Questions About January 6. Check out Julie's book  Disloyal Opposition: How the NeverTrump Right Tried―And Failed―To Take Down the President  01:26:29 - Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H., professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, warns of  The Dangerous Push to Give Boosters to Teens. Check out Dr. Makary's award winning book The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care and How To Fix It  01:42:42 - Guy Sheperd, publisher of Planned Man, makes a call to  Stand up in defense of dissent! Check out Guy's work - plannedman.com 01:56:06 - Robert A. Pape, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago specializing in international security affairs and Director of Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST), explains The New Political Reality, as he sees it    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest Interview with Prof. Robert A. Pape who explains what over-the-horizon means in Afghanistan, why it can't work in the current circumstances, and how to fix it.

After days of violent protests in Colombia, Bogotá Mayor Claudia López joins Christiane Amanpour to explain why President Duque should reach out directly to young people to address poverty and inequity. Journalist and analyst Moisés Naím digs in further to how the protests fit into a broader wave of social and economic crises sweeping across South America. Then turning to the pandemic, Michael Lewis discusses his book "The Premonition", examining the unknown individuals who tried to raise the alarm on Covid-19 and the systems that failed them. A new study on the January 6 Capitol insurrection finds that of the nearly 400 rioters arrested or charged, 93% are white and 86% are male. The study’s principal investigator, Professor Robert A. Pape, talks to our Michel Martin about his findings.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

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Monday, October 7, marks 18 years since the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom. Since 2001, more than 2,400 US military personnel have died in Afghanistan, yet the Taliban and other insurgents continue to launch attacks, hold terrain, and decimate the US-backed Afghan security forces. Robert A. Pape, professor of political science and the director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats at the University of Chicago, joins Deep Dish to discuss another way forward for America’s longest war.

Welcome to 'Say What Wednesdays' - Where we answer your finance questions. Today's question is from Rhys: “I’ve been seeing stories on the news about Trump putting tariffs on China and sanctions on Russia. What is the benefit for the US to do this?” Thanks Rhys Economic sanctions Economic sanctions are penalties applied by one or more countries against a targeted country Examples - trade barriers, tariffs, and restrictions on financial transactions Economic sanctions are used as a tool of foreign policy by governments. imposed by a larger country upon a smaller country for the latter is a threat to the security of the former nation or that country treats its citizens unfairly. They can be used as a coercive measure for achieving particular policy goals, e.g stopping Illegal trade or for humanitarian violations. Economic sanctions are used as an alternative weapon instead of going to war to achieve desired outcomes. Effectiveness of economic sanctions Studies Haufbauer - 34% of the cases were ‘successful’ Robert A. Pape re-examined their study, and only five of their forty so-called "successes" stood out, dropping their success rate to 4%. Types Import restrictions - consumers in the imposing country would have fewer choices of goods. Export restrictions - the imposing country could lose markets and investment opportunities to competing countries Some policy analysts believe imposing trade restrictions only serves to hurt ordinary people. Jeremy Greenstock - sanctions are popular "that there is nothing else between words and military action if you want to bring pressure upon a government" What is a tariff  Tax on the imports or exports of something between countries. Example - Customs Duty - Tax on the import How it works Penalise other places for bringing goods in – but flow on effects – companies etc Free trade agreements – FTA. In summary, tariffs are a tool and hurt people on both sides.

Polling by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveals that record numbers of Americans now consider terrorism directed or inspired by ISIL and Al Qaeda to be a critical threat to the United States. In Europe, the scale of recruitment of “foreign fighters” and the frequency of terror attacks has shown this challenge to be even more acute. Attacks in Belgium, France, and Germany have revealed the challenge that governments face in countering radicalization that leads to terrorism, and dealing with terrorist operatives returning from conflict areas. How have Europe's counter-terrorism strategies evolved in response to ISIL? Robert A. Pape, political science professor at the University of Chicago, Thomas A. Wuchte, head of the Action against Terrorism Unit and Transnational Threats Department, OSCE, and Cécile Shea, nonresident senior fellow, Global Security and Diplomacy, discuss what can the United States and Europe learn from each other's response to this transnational threat.

A talk by Robert Pape, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. In their book "Cutting the Fuse", Robert A. Pape, James K. Feldman and the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism examine every suicide terrorist attack worldwide from 1980 to 2009, nearly 2200 attacks in all. In this talk, Robert Pape presents their finding that contrary to popular and dangerously mistaken belief, religion alone motivates only a tiny minority of these attacks. Instead, the root cause is foreign military occupation, which triggers secular and religious people to carry out suicide attacks.

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes political scientist Robert A. Pape for a discussion of how social science can help us understand suicide terrorism. Professor Pape also reflects on international relations theory and its implications for foreign policy. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 11599]

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes political scientist Robert A. Pape for a discussion of how social science can help us understand suicide terrorism. Professor Pape also reflects on international relations theory and its implications for foreign policy. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 11599]

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes political scientist Robert A. Pape for a discussion of how social science can help us understand suicide terrorism. Professor Pape also reflects on international relations theory and its implications for foreign policy. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 11599]