| Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategy Against Separatists AI Butt | 100* | 2017 |
| Why Did the United States Invade Iraq in 2003? AI Butt Security Studies 28 (2), 250-285, 2019 | 98 | 2019 |
| Anarchy and hierarchy in international relations: examining South America's war-prone decade, 1932–41 AI Butt International Organization 67 (3), 575-607, 2013 | 71 | 2013 |
| Street Power: Friday Prayers, Islamist Protests, and Islamization in Pakistan AI Butt Politics and Religion 9 (1), 1-28, 2016 | 52 | 2016 |
| Pakistan’s military elite P Staniland, A Naseemullah, A Butt Journal of Strategic Studies 43 (1), 74-103, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
| Why do states fight some secessionists but not others? The role of external security AI Butt Journal of global security studies 2 (4), 324-345, 2017 | 10 | 2017 |
| Nationalistic narratives in Pakistani textbooks A Butt US Institute of Peace, 2016 | 10* | 2016 |
| Do nuclear weapons affect the guns-butter trade-off? Evidence on nuclear substitution from Pakistan and beyond AI Butt Conflict, Security & Development 15 (3), 229-257, 2015 | 8 | 2015 |
| Has a ‘fifth generation war’started between India and Pakistan? IA Butt Aljazeera, 4th January, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| The construction of a Chinese hierarchic order in the global south A Butt World Politics in a Time of Populist Nationalism 15, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
| Why did Bush go to war in Iraq? AI Butt Opinions| Al Jazeera, 2019 | 6 | 2019 |
| What the KulbhushanJadhav saga reveals about India and Pakistan‘s Balochistan problems A Butt The Diplomat, 2018 | 6 | 2018 |
| Imran Khan’s talks with the Pakistan Taliban will not bring peace AI Butt Al Jazeera, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
| The Afghan war: A failure made in the USA A Butt AlJazeera Online 23, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| It’s Time for South Asia to Talk Climate A Butt United States Institute of Peace, October 17, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| State Strategies Against Secessionists A Butt Strategies of secession and counter-secession, 69-83, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
| Why Pakistan Always Seems on the Brink of Collapse B Ahsan Journal of Democracy, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| Goodbye or see you later: Why states fight some secessionists but not others AI Butt The University of Chicago, 2012 | 3 | 2012 |
| Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategies against Separatists I Butt Ahsan Book manuscript, George Mason University, 2016 | 2 | 2016 |
| The Shahbaz Bhatti Assassination: Have We Already Crossed the Crossroads A Butt Asian Correspondent, 2011 | 2 | 2011 |
Paul StanilandUniversity of ChicagoVerified email at uchicago.edu
