Robert Anthony Pape (Erie, 24. 4. 1960. – ), američki politolog, autor i profesor, specijaliziran za nacionalnu sigurnost i terorizam. Studirao je političke nauke na Univerzitetu u Pittsburghu gdje je 1982. stekao titulu prvostupnika (B.A.) i magistra (M.A.), a doktorat je obranio 1988. na Univerzitetu u Chicagu. Akademsku karijeru započeo je 1990. kao gostujući predavač na Univerzitetu u Michiganu, potom je radio kao docent na Avijacijskom univerzitetu u Montgomeryju (1991–1994), Koledžu Dartmouth (1994–1999) i Univerzitetu u Chicagu (1999–2005), te konačno kao profesor na potonjem univerzitetu od 2005. godine. Pape je objavio dvije važne studije – Bombing to Win (1996) u kojoj se navodi da se historijsko strateško bombardiranje uglavnom pokazalo kao neuspješno u strateškom smislu, te Dying to Win (2005) koja istražuje terorističke samoubilačke napade od 1980. do 2003. i dolazi do zaključka da postoji neznatna veza između takve vrste terorizma i religijskog fundamentalizma, odnosno da su motivi primarno sekularno-nacionalistički. Također potpisuje na desetine stručnih članaka na temu sigurosnih studija.
- Knjige
- Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1996, ISBN 9780801483110
- Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, New York: Random House, 2005, ISBN 9781400063178; London: Gibson Square, 2006 (prošireno izdanje), ISBN 9781903933787
- Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It (koautor: James K. Feldman), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010, ISBN 9780226645605
- Članci
- "Coercive Air Power in the Vietnam War," International Security, 15.2 (1990), str. 103-146.
- "Coercion and Military Strategy : Why Denial Works and Punishment Doesn't", Journal of Strategic Studies, 15.4 (1992), str. 423-475.
- "Why Japan Surrendered," International Security, 18.2 (1993), str. 154-201.
- "The Answer (A Partition Plan for Bosnia)", New Republic, 208.24, 14. 6. 1993, str. 22-28. (s Johnom J. Mearsheimerom)
- "A Surgical Strike that Could Backfire," New York Times, 27. 4. 1996, str. 23.
- "Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work," International Security, 22.2 (jesen 1997)
- "Partition : an Exit Strategy for Bosnia," Survival, 39.4 (1997/98), str. 25-28.
- "The Limits of Precision Guided Air Power," Security Studies, 7.2 (Winter 1997/98), str. 93-114.
- "The Air Force Strikes Back : a Reply to Barry Watts and John Warden", Security Studies, 7.2 (zima 1997/98), str. 191-214.
- "Why Economic Sanctions Still Do Not Work," International Security, 23.1 (ljeto 1998)
- "A Workable Policy on Iraq," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 54.3 (1998), str. 6.
- "Correspondence: Evaluation Economic Sanctions," with David A. Balwin International Security, 23.2 (jesen 1998), str. 189-198.
- "The Determinants of International Moral Action," International Organization, 53.4 (jesen 1999)
- "Explaining Costly International Moral Action : Britain's Sixty-year Campaign Against the Atlantic Slave Trade", International Organization, 53.4 (1999), str. 631-668. (s Chaimom D. Kaufmannom)
- "Our Iraq Policy is not Working", New York Times, 24. 2. 2001, str. A-13.
- "Show the Evidence", New York Times 4. 10. 2001, str. A-27. (s Chaimom D. Kaufmannom)
- "The Wrong Battle Plan", Washington Post, 19. 10. 2001, str. A-29.
- "Wars Can't Be Won Only From Above", New York Times, 21. 3. 2003, str. A-19.
- "The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism", American Political Science Review, 97.3 (august 2003), str. 343-361.
- "Dying to Kill Us," New York Times, 22. 9. 2003.
- "The True Worth of Air Power," Foreign Affairs (mart/april 2004), str. 116-130.
- "Hit or Miss," debata s Merrillom A. McPeakom Arhivirano 2006-12-10 na Wayback Machine-u", Foreign Affairs (septembar/oktobar 2004) str. 160-163.
- "Soft Balancing Against the United States International Security, 30.1, 2005, str. 7-45.
- "Al Qaeda's Smart Bombs", New York Times, 9. 7. 2005, str. A-13.
- "Blowing Up an Assumption," New York Times, 18. 5. 2005. (sažetak ideja iz Dying to Win)
- "Ground to a Halt," New York Times, 3. 8. 2006, str. A-21.
- "The Growth of Suicide Terrorism," Chicago Tribune, 11. 9. 2006.
- Interview with Robert Pape, The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism Arhivirano 2008-10-04 na Wayback Machine-u, Antiwar.com, 2. 10. 2008.
- It's the Occupation Stupid Arhivirano 2014-10-18 na Wayback Machine-u, Robert A. Pape, Foreign Policy magazine, 18. 10. 2010