America is now on the slippery slope of political violence. From riots during the George Floyd protests in 2020, to the storming of the US Capitol in 2021, to violent protests on college campuses, to assassination attempts against the Speaker of the House, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, and now to the cold-blooded murder of a prominent healthcare CEO – America is experiencing mounting political violence that is crossing threshold after threshold of restraint in the use of political violence. In this lecture, Professor Robert Pape from the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago explains the major factors driving today's era of "violent populism" in America, how it compares to past U.S. eras of political violence, and what this portends for instability in geopolitical contests in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
UChicago Global Centers in Asia Host a Virtual Lecture with Robert Pape
