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Prof Robert Pape

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Prof Pape tracks wars, political violence, and geopolitical shifts worldwide in real time, identifying the strategic forces reshaping global politics, markets, and security before everyone else sees where they're headed.

Free Subscription Benefits

  • Occasional public posts

Paid Subcription Benefits

  • Biweekly Prof Pape Briefings (Live, Limited to 100) in active military or political violence escalation periods with subscriber Q/A
  • Weekly Global Brief analysis of the principal conflicts in the world and Moving Global Chessboard immediate analysis of critical events during the week
  • 48-Hour Emergency Briefing Trigger Zooms, if major escalation such as ground deployment, mass-casualty attack, or nuclear signaling

Paid Subscription Plans

  • $15 a month
  • $150 a year

About Prof Robert Pape

I teach at the University of Chicago and study how force is used to achieve political objectives, how escalation unfolds, and how strategies of restraint can succeed or fail in international and American political violence.

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