| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Ontological (In)security and State Denial of Historical Crimes: Turkey and Japan | International Relations | 2010 | 271 |
| 2 | ‘Securitization’ revisited: theory and cases | International Relations | 2016 | 231 |
| 3 | Security is Coming Home: Rethinking Scale and Constructing Resilience in the Global Urban Response to Terrorist Risk | International Relations | 2006 | 180 |
| 4 | Norm Regress: US Revisionism and the Slow Death of the Torture Norm | International Relations | 2009 | 167 |
| 5 | International Relations in the prison of Political Science | International Relations | 2016 | 142 |
| 6 | Did the Realist-Idealist Great Debate Really Happen? a Revisionist History of International Relations | International Relations | 2002 | 135 |
| 7 | Why is there no International Theory? | International Relations | 1960 | 114 |
| 8 | Engaging Foucault: Discourse, Liberal Governance and the Limits of Foucauldian IR | International Relations | 2007 | 109 |
| 9 | Reclaiming ‘Bare Life’?: Against Agamben on Refugees | International Relations | 2009 | 108 |
| 10 | EU external policy at the crossroads: The challenge of actorness and effectiveness | International Relations | 2013 | 106 |
| 11 | Consensual Hegemony: Theorizing Brazilian Foreign Policy after the Cold War | International Relations | 2008 | 104 |
| 12 | Forget Trauma? Responses to September 11 | International Relations | 2002 | 99 |
| 13 | When the Threatened Become the Threat: The Construction of Asylum Seekers in British Media Narratives | International Relations | 2010 | 96 |
| 14 | Power Shifts, Economic Change and the Decline of the West? | International Relations | 2012 | 95 |
| 15 | Vernacular Securities and Their Study: A Qualitative Analysis and Research Agenda | International Relations | 2013 | 95 |
| 16 | Corporate Social Responsibility -The Failing Discipline and Why it Matters for International Relations | International Relations | 2005 | 88 |
| 17 | Risk-transfer Militarism, Small Massacres and the Historic Legitimacy of War | International Relations | 2002 | 87 |
| 18 | Private Security Contractors in the Debate about Darfur: Reflecting and Reinforcing Neo-Liberal Governmentality | International Relations | 2007 | 80 |
| 19 | Seeking `Legitimate' Great Power Status in Post-Cold War International Society: China's and Japan's Participation in UNPKO | International Relations | 2008 | 77 |
| 20 | The Inaugural Kenneth N. Waltz Annual Lecture A World Order Without Superpowers | International Relations | 2011 | 77 |
| 21 | Global Norm Diffusion in East Asia | International Relations | 2011 | 77 |
| 22 | The Responsibility to Protect: An Idea Whose Time Has Come … and Gone? | International Relations | 2008 | 76 |
| 23 | Securing the City: Private Security Companies and Non-State Authority in Global Governance | International Relations | 2007 | 74 |
| 24 | Reckless States and Realism | International Relations | 2009 | 74 |
| 25 | Twenty Years of Institutional Liberalism | International Relations | 2012 | 74 |
| 26 | Trauma and the Politics of Emotions: Constituting Identity, Security and Community after the Bali Bombing | International Relations | 2010 | 72 |
| 27 | Pluralism, Solidarism and the Emergence of World Society in English School Theory | International Relations | 2005 | 71 |
| 28 | E.H. Carr vs. Idealism: The Battle Rages On | International Relations | 2005 | 69 |
| 29 | Lost in Transition: A Critical Analysis of Power Transition Theory | International Relations | 2009 | 69 |
| 30 | Theorising feminist foreign policy | International Relations | 2019 | 68 |
| 31 | Case study research and critical IR: the case for the extended case methodology | International Relations | 2019 | 67 |
| 32 | Law, Teleology and International Relations: An Essay in Counterdisciplinarity | International Relations | 2012 | 66 |
| 33 | The European Union at the Copenhagen climate negotiations: A case of contested EU actorness and effectiveness | International Relations | 2013 | 66 |
| 34 | The Structure of Institutionalism: an Anatomy of British Mainstream International Relations | International Relations | 1983 | 62 |
| 35 | Reduced to Bad Sex: Narratives of Violent Women from the Bible to the War on Terror | International Relations | 2008 | 61 |
| 36 | The Responsibility to Protect: ‘Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing’? | International Relations | 2010 | 58 |
| 37 | Worlding beyond ‘the’ ‘end’ of ‘the world’: white apocalyptic visions and BIPOC futurisms | International Relations | 2020 | 57 |
| 38 | AIDS, Security, Biopolitics | International Relations | 2005 | 56 |
| 39 | Crises and international cooperation: an Arctic case study | International Relations | 2017 | 56 |
| 40 | `There are No Rules' (George W. Bush): International Order After September 11 | International Relations | 2002 | 55 |
| 41 | Nuclear Weapons as Obstacles to International Security | International Relations | 2002 | 54 |
| 42 | Dying for `Enduring Freedom': Accepting Responsibility for Civilian Casualties in the War against Terrorism | International Relations | 2002 | 52 |
| 43 | Waltz's Theory of Theory | International Relations | 2009 | 52 |
| 44 | Constructing Insecurity: Australian Security Discourse and Policy Post-2001 | International Relations | 2005 | 48 |
| 45 | The Development of a Counter-Epistemic Community: AIDS, South Africa, and International Regimes | International Relations | 2005 | 47 |
| 46 | ‘Crimea is ours’: A discursive history | International Relations | 2016 | 46 |
| 47 | The Crisis of AIDS and the Politics of Response: The Case of Uganda | International Relations | 2001 | 44 |
| 48 | US grand strategy after the Cold War: Can realism explain it? Should realism guide it? | International Relations | 2018 | 44 |
| 49 | The nexus of populism and foreign policy: The case of Latin America | International Relations | 2021 | 44 |
| 50 | International Legitimacy | International Relations | 1972 | 42 |
