| Grey is the new black: covert action and implausible deniability R Cormac, RJ Aldrich International affairs 94 (3), 477-494, 2018 | 161 | 2018 |
| Disrupt and deny: spies, special forces, and the secret pursuit of British foreign policy R Cormac Oxford University Press, 2018 | 100 | 2018 |
| The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers R Aldrich, R Cormac William Collins, 2016 | 78* | 2016 |
| Confronting the Colonies: British Intelligence and Counterinsurgency R Cormac Oxford University Press, USA, 2013 | 60 | 2013 |
| Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013 R Aldrich, R Cormac, M Goodman Edinburgh University Press, 2014 | 36 | 2014 |
| The pinprick approach: Whitehall’s top-secret anti-communist committee and the evolution of British covert action strategy R Cormac Journal of Cold War Studies 16 (3), 5-28, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
| Organizing intelligence: An introduction to the 1955 report on colonial security R Cormac Intelligence and National Security 25 (6), 800-822, 2010 | 18 | 2010 |
| What constitutes successful covert action? Evaluating unacknowledged interventionism in foreign affairs R Cormac, C Walton, D Van Puyvelde Review of International Studies 48 (1), 111-128, 2022 | 17 | 2022 |
| Disruption and deniable interventionism: explaining the appeal of covert action and Special Forces in contemporary British policy R Cormac International Relations 31 (2), 169-191, 2017 | 16 | 2017 |
| Coordinating covert action: the case of the Yemen civil war and the South Arabian insurgency R Cormac Journal of Strategic Studies 36 (5), 692-717, 2013 | 16* | 2013 |
| A Whitehall ‘Showdown’?: Colonial Office—Joint Intelligence Committee Relations in the Mid-1950s R Cormac The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 39 (2), 249-267, 2011 | 15 | 2011 |
| Much ado about nothing: Terrorism, intelligence, and the mechanics of threat exaggeration R Cormac Terrorism and Political Violence 25 (3), 476-493, 2013 | 13 | 2013 |
| Secret intelligence and economic security: The exploitation of a critical asset in an increasingly prominent sphere R Cormac Intelligence and National Security 29 (1), 99-121, 2014 | 12 | 2014 |
| From secrecy to accountability: The politics of exposure in the Belgrano affair T Eason, O Daddow, R Cormac The British Journal of Politics and International Relations 22 (3), 542-560, 2020 | 9 | 2020 |
| The Information Research Department, Unattributable Propaganda, and Northern Ireland, 1971–1973: Promising Salvation but Ending in Failure? R Cormac The English Historical Review 131 (552), 1074-1104, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| Techniques of covert propaganda: the British approach in the mid-1960s R Cormac Intelligence and National Security 34 (7), 1064-1069, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| A Modern-Day Requirement for Co-Ordinated Covert Action: Lessons from the UK's Intelligence History R Cormac, MS Goodman, T Holman The RUSI Journal 161 (2), 14-21, 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| How to Stage a Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft R Cormac Atlantic Books, 2022 | 7 | 2022 |
| Covert action failure and fiasco construction: William Hague’s 2011 Libyan venture R Cormac, O Daddow Journal of European Public Policy 25 (5), 690-707, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| The Black Door R Aldrich, R Cormac London: William Collins, 2017 | 7 | 2017 |
