| 1 | Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory | International Political Sociology | 2009 | 218 |
| 2 | The Humanitarian Politics of European Border Policing: Frontex and Border Police in Evros, | International Political Sociology | 2015 | 194 |
| 3 | Affect as Methodology: Feminism and the Politics of Emotion1 | International Political Sociology | 2018 | 192 |
| 4 | Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations: Power of Practices, Practices of Power | International Political Sociology | 2011 | 171 |
| 5 | Security Beyond the State: Global Security Assemblages in International Politics | International Political Sociology | 2009 | 167 |
| 6 | After Snowden: Rethinking the Impact of Surveillance | International Political Sociology | 2014 | 158 |
| 7 | Beyond Informal Citizenship: The New Moral Economy of Migrant Illegality1 | International Political Sociology | 2012 | 144 |
| 8 | The Militarization of Urban Marginality: Lessons from the Brazilian Metropolis | International Political Sociology | 2008 | 143 |
| 9 | Governmentalities of an Airport: Heterotopia and Confession | International Political Sociology | 2007 | 126 |
| 10 | States of Exception on the Mexico?U.S. Border: Security, "Decisions," and Civilian Border Patrols | International Political Sociology | 2007 | 124 |
| 11 | Spectacular Security: Mega-Events and the Security Complex | International Political Sociology | 2009 | 123 |
| 12 | Governing Terror: The State of Emergency of Biopolitical Emergence | International Political Sociology | 2007 | 114 |
| 13 | The Jargon of Exception—On Schmitt, Agamben and the Absence of Political Society | International Political Sociology | 2008 | 111 |
| 14 | “Resiliency Humanitarianism”: Responsibilizing Refugees through Humanitarian Emergency Governance in the Camp | International Political Sociology | 2015 | 111 |
| 15 | The Politics of Twitter: Emotions and the Power of Social Media | International Political Sociology | 2019 | 111 |
| 16 | Making Things Known: Epistemic Practices, the United Nations, and the Translation of Piracy | International Political Sociology | 2015 | 104 |
| 17 | Enclosing Critique: The Limits of Ontological Security | International Political Sociology | 2015 | 100 |
| 18 | Governing Diasporas | International Political Sociology | 2009 | 95 |
| 19 | The Force of a Weak Field: Law and Lawyers in the Government of the European Union (For a Renewed Research Agenda) | International Political Sociology | 2008 | 91 |
| 20 | Ambiguity, Uncertainty, and Risk: Rethinking Indeterminacy1 | International Political Sociology | 2008 | 91 |
| 21 | The “Minor” Politics of Rightful Presence: Justice and Relationality inCity of Sanctuary | International Political Sociology | 2013 | 86 |
| 22 | Powers of War: Fighting, Knowledge, and Critique1 | International Political Sociology | 2011 | 85 |
| 23 | Know-Where: Geographies of Knowledge of World Politics | International Political Sociology | 2007 | 83 |
| 24 | In the Name of Love: Marriage Migration, Governmentality, and Technologies of Love | International Political Sociology | 2013 | 81 |
| 25 | Everyday Resilience as Resistance: Palestinian Women PracticingSumud | International Political Sociology | 2015 | 80 |
| 26 | The Mundane Matters | International Political Sociology | 2011 | 78 |
| 27 | Racism in Foucauldian Security Studies: Biopolitics, Liberal War, and the Whitewashing of Colonial and Racial Violence | International Political Sociology | 2019 | 78 |
| 28 | "A Speech That the Entire Ministry May Stand for," or: Why Diplomats Never Produce Anything New | International Political Sociology | 2007 | 77 |
| 29 | The Promises, Problems, and Potentials of a Bourdieu-Inspired Staging of International Relations1 | International Political Sociology | 2011 | 75 |
| 30 | What Do Numbers Do in Transnational Governance? | International Political Sociology | 2012 | 75 |
| 31 | Davos Woman to the Rescue of Global Capitalism: Postfeminist Politics and Competitiveness Promotion at the World Economic Forum | International Political Sociology | 2013 | 73 |
| 32 | "We Live in a Country of UNHCR"—Refugee Protests and Global Political Society | International Political Sociology | 2007 | 70 |
| 33 | Contesting the Colonial Logics of the International: Toward a Relational Politics for the Pluriverse | International Political Sociology | 2016 | 70 |
| 34 | “If Lehman Brothers Had Been Lehman Sisters...”: Gender and Myth in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis | International Political Sociology | 2012 | 68 |
| 35 | "Global Civil Society" and the Political Depoliticization of Global Governance | International Political Sociology | 2007 | 67 |
| 36 | Unraveling Coloniality in International Relations: Knowledge, Relationality, and Strategies for Engagement | International Political Sociology | 2018 | 67 |
| 37 | A Genealogy of Resilience | International Political Sociology | 2018 | 66 |
| 38 | Security, Law, Borders: Spaces of Exclusion | International Political Sociology | 2008 | 62 |
| 39 | Private Detention and the Immigration Industrial Complex | International Political Sociology | 2013 | 60 |
| 40 | A Global Politics of Pity? Disaster Imagery and the Emotional Construction of Solidarity after the 2004 Asian Tsunami | International Political Sociology | 2014 | 59 |
| 41 | Governmentality and EU Democracy Promotion: The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights and the Construction of Democratic Civil Societies1 | International Political Sociology | 2011 | 58 |
| 42 | Guilty Bodies, Productive Bodies, Destructive Bodies: Crossing the Biometric Borders | International Political Sociology | 2007 | 53 |
| 43 | Building the Other, Constructing Ourselves: Spatial Dimensions of International Humanitarian Response | International Political Sociology | 2008 | 53 |
| 44 | Risking Security: Policies and Paradoxes of Cyberspace Security | International Political Sociology | 2010 | 53 |
| 45 | Resilience and the Autotelic Subject: Toward a Critique of the Societalization of Security | International Political Sociology | 2013 | 53 |
| 46 | Securitization of Migration in Greece: Process, Motives, and Implications | International Political Sociology | 2012 | 52 |
| 47 | The Sangh Parivar and the Hindu Diaspora in the West: What Kind of "Long-Distance Nationalism"? | International Political Sociology | 2007 | 51 |
| 48 | Criminalizing Communism: Transnational Mnemopolitics in Europe | International Political Sociology | 2014 | 51 |
| 49 | The Necropolitics of Drones | International Political Sociology | 2015 | 51 |
| 50 | Technologizing Humanitarian Space: Darfur Advocacy and the Rape-Stove Panacea | International Political Sociology | 2014 | 50 |