| Committing to peace: The successful settlement of civil wars BF Walter Princeton University Press, 2002 | 2125 | 2002 |
| The critical barrier to civil war settlement BF Walter International organization 51 (3), 335-364, 1997 | 1807 | 1997 |
| The strategies of terrorism AH Kydd, BF Walter International security 31 (1), 49-80, 2006 | 1591 | 2006 |
| Does conflict beget conflict? Explaining recurring civil war BF Walter Journal of peace research 41 (3), 371-388, 2004 | 957 | 2004 |
| The gender citation gap in international relations D Maliniak, R Powers, BF Walter International Organization 67 (4), 889-922, 2013 | 805 | 2013 |
| Sabotaging the peace: The politics of extremist violence A Kydd, BF Walter International Organization 56 (2), 263-296, 2002 | 798 | 2002 |
| Designing transitions from civil war: Demobilization, democratization, and commitments to peace BF Walter International Security 24 (1), 127-155, 1999 | 698 | 1999 |
| Bargaining failures and civil war BF Walter Annual review of political science 12 (1), 243-261, 2009 | 582 | 2009 |
| Building reputation: Why governments fight some separatists but not others BF Walter American Journal of Political Science 50 (2), 313-330, 2006 | 542 | 2006 |
| Reputation and civil war: Why separatist conflicts are so violent BF Walter Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 457 | 2009 |
| Civil wars, insecurity, and intervention BF Walter, JL Snyder Columbia University Press, 1999 | 442 | 1999 |
| Explaining the intractability of territorial conflict BF Walter International Studies Review 5 (4), 137-153, 2003 | 317 | 2003 |
| Ethnicity and civil war EK Denny, BF Walter Journal of Peace Research 51 (2), 199-212, 2014 | 285 | 2014 |
| Why bad governance leads to repeat civil war BF Walter Journal of Conflict Resolution 59 (7), 1242-1272, 2015 | 282 | 2015 |
| Information, uncertainty, and the decision to secede BF Walter International Organization 60 (1), 105-135, 2006 | 248 | 2006 |
| Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization M Kahler, BF Walter Cambridge University Press, 2006 | 235 | 2006 |
| How civil wars start: And how to stop them BF Walter Crown, 2023 | 200 | 2023 |
| Conflict relapse and the sustainability of post-conflict peace BF Walter World Bank, 2012 | 191 | 2012 |
| The extremist's advantage in civil wars BF Walter International security 42 (2), 7-39, 2017 | 163 | 2017 |
| The new new civil wars BF Walter Annual Review of Political Science 20 (1), 469-486, 2017 | 149 | 2017 |
