| 1 | International Crises of Legitimacy | International Politics | 2007 | 270 |
| 2 | Globalization Theory: A Post Mortem | International Politics | 2005 | 239 |
| 3 | American Interests and IMF Lending | International Politics | 2004 | 171 |
| 4 | Kenneth Waltz and Leon Trotsky: Anarchy in the mirror of uneven and combined development | International Politics | 2013 | 108 |
| 5 | Do Democracy and Free Markets Protect Us From Terrorism? | International Politics | 2007 | 102 |
| 6 | Securing Humans in a Dangerous World | International Politics | 2006 | 96 |
| 7 | Legitimacy Gaps in the World Economy: Explaining the Sources of the IMF's Legitimacy Crisis | International Politics | 2007 | 94 |
| 8 | The elusive definition of the small state | International Politics | 2008 | 89 |
| 9 | Marketing Rebellion: Insurgent Groups, International Media, and NGO Support | International Politics | 2001 | 86 |
| 10 | Nation and Empire: Hierarchies of Citizenship in the New Global Order | International Politics | 2005 | 82 |
| 11 | Breaking and Making Norms: American Revisionism and Crises of Legitimacy | International Politics | 2007 | 82 |
| 12 | ‘Incantatory’ governance: global climate politics’ performative turn and its wider significance for global politics | International Politics | 2020 | 78 |
| 13 | International Relations — The ‘Higher Bullshit’: A Reply to the Globalization Theory Debate | International Politics | 2007 | 77 |
| 14 | Global financial governance and the developing anti-money laundering regime: What lessons for International Political Economy? | International Politics | 2010 | 76 |
| 15 | The Emergence of a Global Anti-corruption Norm | International Politics | 2001 | 75 |
| 16 | The Antinomy of Democratic Peace | International Politics | 2004 | 72 |
| 17 | Theorizing Norm Diffusion Within International Organizations | International Politics | 2006 | 68 |
| 18 | It’s not the size, it’s the relationship: from ‘small states’ to asymmetry | International Politics | 2017 | 64 |
| 19 | Norbert Elias, The ‘Civilizing Process’ and the Sociology of International Relations | International Politics | 2004 | 61 |
| 20 | Reason, Emotion and Cooperation | International Politics | 2005 | 61 |
| 21 | Drivers of strategic contestation: The case of South America | International Politics | 2014 | 61 |
| 22 | BRICS: Sovereignty power and weakness | International Politics | 2012 | 59 |
| 23 | Distant Suffering and Cosmopolitan Obligations | International Politics | 2006 | 58 |
| 24 | The politics of liberal internationalism | International Politics | 2012 | 55 |
| 25 | Populism, historical discourse and foreign policy: the case of Poland’s Law and Justice government | International Politics | 2020 | 55 |
| 26 | Provincializing Westphalia: The Eastern origins of sovereignty | International Politics | 2009 | 53 |
| 27 | South Africa’s symbolic hegemony in Africa | International Politics | 2014 | 53 |
| 28 | Contested regional orders and institutional balancing in the Asia Pacific | International Politics | 2014 | 53 |
| 29 | The climatization of global politics: introduction to the special issue | International Politics | 2021 | 52 |
| 30 | Comparative regional integration in the EU and East Asia: Moving beyond integration snobbery | International Politics | 2010 | 50 |
| 31 | No war, no peace: Why so many peace processes fail to deliver peace | International Politics | 2010 | 46 |
| 32 | Revisiting consensual hegemony: Brazilian regional leadership in question | International Politics | 2014 | 46 |
| 33 | The Russia–China entente and its future | International Politics | 2020 | 46 |
| 34 | Prestige in world politics: History, theory, expression | International Politics | 2013 | 44 |
| 35 | The European Union and the Libyan crisis | International Politics | 2014 | 44 |
| 36 | The Conflict Behavior of Authoritarian Regimes | International Politics | 2004 | 43 |
| 37 | Strategic Non-cooperation as Soft Balancing: Why Iraq was not Just about Iraq | International Politics | 2005 | 43 |
| 38 | Old Wars, Cold Wars, New Wars, and the War on Terror | International Politics | 2005 | 43 |
| 39 | Ambushed: The Kyoto Protocol, the Bush Administration's Climate Policy and the Erosion of Legitimacy | International Politics | 2007 | 43 |
| 40 | US Foreign Policy and the ‘Securitization’ of Economic Globalization | International Politics | 2004 | 42 |
| 41 | Explaining the negotiation of EU foreign policy: Normative institutionalism and alternative approaches | International Politics | 2009 | 41 |
| 42 | Why do secondary states choose to support, follow or challenge? | International Politics | 2015 | 41 |
| 43 | European Institutions and Unsuccessful Norm Transmission: The Case of Transparency | International Politics | 2002 | 40 |
| 44 | Paradigm Lost: Huntington's Unfulfilled Clash of Civilizations Prediction into the 21st Century | International Politics | 2005 | 40 |
| 45 | Overcoming smallness: Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and strategic realignment in the Gulf | International Politics | 2019 | 40 |
| 46 | Coronavirus diplomacy: Chinese medical assistance and its diplomatic implications | International Politics | 2021 | 40 |
| 47 | Defeat, National Humiliation, and the Revenge Motif in International Politics | International Politics | 2000 | 39 |
| 48 | Conceptualizing sovereignty in Russian foreign policy: Realist and constructivist perspectives | International Politics | 2012 | 38 |
| 49 | Neither balance nor bandwagon: South American international society meets Brazil’s rising power | International Politics | 2014 | 38 |
| 50 | Revisiting world society | International Politics | 2017 | 38 |