
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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The Moving Global Chessboard – October 18, 2026
Half a million marched peacefully. A determined minority set fires and looted in 13+ cities. What it reveals, and why America is further along.
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The Moving Global Chessboard -- October 16, 2026
Freezing Kyiv won’t break Ukraine. It will start a spiral that reaches Moscow.
Three popular explanations are wrong. The real one is hiding in a group of voters most analysts ignore.
On Oct. 9, President Trump announced that Vladimir Putin would ship Russian diesel to America, and that prices would fall “IN RECORD NU...
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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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