
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.
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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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