| 1 | The False Promise of International Institutions | International Security | 1994 | 989 |
| 2 | Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict: Evidence from Cases | International Security | 1994 | 923 |
| 3 | Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War | International Security | 1990 | 783 |
| 4 | Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State
Coercion | International Security | 2019 | 597 |
| 5 | Structural Realism after the Cold War | International Security | 2000 | 552 |
| 6 | Soft Balancing against the United States | International Security | 2005 | 526 |
| 7 | Bandwagoning for Profit: Bringing the Revisionist State Back In | International Security | 1994 | 514 |
| 8 | The NGO Scramble: Organizational Insecurity and the Political Economy of Transnational Action | International Security | 2002 | 513 |
| 9 | The Strategies of Terrorism | International Security | 2006 | 499 |
| 10 | Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work | International Security | 1997 | 495 |
| 11 | Water and Conflict: Fresh Water Resources and International Security | International Security | 1993 | 494 |
| 12 | The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory | International Security | 1998 | 469 |
| 13 | The Emerging Structure of International Politics | International Security | 1993 | 445 |
| 14 | Is Anybody Still a Realist? | International Security | 1999 | 442 |
| 15 | Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes | International Security | 1997 | 433 |
| 16 | On the Threshold: Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict | International Security | 1991 | 417 |
| 17 | The Promise of Institutionalist Theory | International Security | 1995 | 402 |
| 18 | The Stability of a Unipolar World | International Security | 1999 | 401 |
| 19 | Democratization and the Danger of War | International Security | 1995 | 385 |
| 20 | Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air? | International Security | 2001 | 379 |
| 21 | Alliance Formation and the Balance of World Power | International Security | 1985 | 371 |
| 22 | Diplomatic History and International Relations Theory: Respecting Difference and Crossing Boundaries | International Security | 1997 | 370 |
| 23 | Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order | International Security | 2019 | 366 |
| 24 | Constructing International Politics | International Security | 1995 | 333 |
| 25 | The Passion of World Politics: Propositions on Emotion and Emotional Relationships | International Security | 2000 | 328 |
| 26 | After Unipolarity: China's Visions of International Order in an Era of U.S. Decline | International Security | 2011 | 298 |
| 27 | The Unipolar Illusion: Why New Great Powers Will Rise | International Security | 1993 | 290 |
| 28 | Visions in Collision: What Happened at Camp David and Taba? | International Security | 2003 | 282 |
| 29 | Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict | International Security | 2008 | 278 |
| 30 | How Liberalism Produces Democratic Peace | International Security | 1994 | 277 |
| 31 | Redefining Security | International Security | 1983 | 276 |
| 32 | Is China a Status Quo Power? | International Security | 2003 | 276 |
| 33 | Containing Fear: The Origins and Management of Ethnic Conflict | International Security | 1996 | 264 |
| 34 | Governance without Government in Somalia: Spoilers, State Building, and the Politics of Coping | International Security | 2007 | 263 |
| 35 | Status Seekers: Chinese and Russian Responses to U.S. Primacy | International Security | 2010 | 263 |
| 36 | Coup-proofing: Its Practice and Consequences in the Middle East | International Security | 1999 | 260 |
| 37 | How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict | International Security | 2001 | 260 |
| 38 | Redrawing the Line: Borders and Security in the Twenty-first Century | International Security | 2003 | 252 |
| 39 | How al-Qaida Ends: The Decline and Demise of Terrorist Groups | International Security | 2006 | 248 |
| 40 | Assessing the Dangers of Illicit Networks: Why al-Qaida May Be Less Threatening Than Many Think | International Security | 2008 | 247 |
| 41 | Ripe for Rivalry: Prospects for Peace in a Multipolar Asia | International Security | 1993 | 245 |
| 42 | Getting Asia Wrong: The Need for New Analytical Frameworks | International Security | 2003 | 235 |
| 43 | Kant or Cant: The Myth of the Democratic Peace | International Security | 1994 | 227 |
| 44 | How New and Assertive Is China's New Assertiveness? | International Security | 2013 | 226 |
| 45 | Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons?: Three Models in Search of a Bomb | International Security | 1996 | 225 |
| 46 | Trials and Errors: Principle and Pragmatism in Strategies of International Justice | International Security | 2004 | 225 |
| 47 | Crossing Borders: International Migration and National Security | International Security | 2006 | 221 |
| 48 | Thinking about Strategic Culture | International Security | 1995 | 219 |
| 49 | Why Terrorism Does Not Work | International Security | 2006 | 218 |
| 50 | Sharing Sovereignty: New Institutions for Collapsed and Failing States | International Security | 2004 | 216 |
