Robert Pape
Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security
Summer 2005
"Soft Balancing against the United States"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 1, volume 30
By Robert Pape, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security
The George W. Bush administration’s national security strategy, which asserts that the United States has the right to attack and conquer sovereign countries that pose no observable threat, and to do so without international support, is one of the most aggressively unilateral U.S. postures ever taken. Recent international relations scholarship has wrongly promoted the view that the United States, as the leader of a unipolar system, can pursue such a policy without fear of serious opposition.
Fall 1998
"Correspondence: Evaluating Economic Sanctions"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 2, volume 23
By David A. Baldwin and Robert Pape, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security
David Baldwin of Columbia University takes issue with Robert Pape’s findings in his Fall 1997 article that economic sanctions “do not work.” Pape replies.
Summer 1998
"Why Economic Sanctions Still Do Not Work"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 1, volume 23
By Robert Pape, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security
The author responds with a vigorous defense of his original findings from “Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work,” a highly regarded and influential study that offered qualified optimism about the effectiveness of economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool, which was published in the fall 1997 issue of International Security.
