| Civilian control of the military: The changing security environment MC Desch JHU Press, 2001 | 895 | 2001 |
| Culture clash: Assessing the importance of ideas in security studies MC Desch The Realism Reader, 353-360, 2014 | 623 | 2014 |
| America's liberal illiberalism: The ideological origins of overreaction in US foreign policy MC Desch International Security 32 (3), 7-43, 2007 | 314 | 2007 |
| War and strong states, peace and weak states? MC Desch International Organization 50 (2), 237-268, 1996 | 294 | 1996 |
| Democracy and victory: Why regime type hardly matters MC Desch International Security 27 (2), 5-47, 2002 | 267 | 2002 |
| What do policymakers want from us? Results of a survey of current and former senior national security decision makers PC Avey, MC Desch International Studies Quarterly 58 (2), 227-246, 2014 | 201 | 2014 |
| Soldiers, states, and structures: The end of the Cold War and weakening US civilian control MC Desch Armed Forces & Society 24 (3), 389-405, 1998 | 132 | 1998 |
| Power and military effectiveness: the fallacy of democratic triumphalism MC Desch JHU Press, 2008 | 129 | 2008 |
| When the Third World Matters: Latin America and United States Grand Strategy MC Desch (No Title), 1993 | 113 | 1993 |
| Bush and the Generals MC Desch Military Leadership, 205-215, 2018 | 112 | 2018 |
| The keys that lock up the world: identifying American interests in the periphery MC Desch International Security 14 (1), 86-121, 1989 | 94 | 1989 |
| Threat environments and military missions MC Desch Civil-military relations and democracy, 12-29, 1996 | 87 | 1996 |
| Isms and schisms: culturalism versus realism in security studies JS Duffield, T Farrell, R Price, MC Desch International Security 24 (1), 156-180, 1999 | 86 | 1999 |
| The Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security M Desch | 84 | 2019 |
| Soldiers in Cities: military operations on urban terrain MC Desch Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2001 | 78 | 2001 |
| It is kind to be cruel: the humanity of American Realism MC Desch Review of International Studies 29 (3), 415-426, 2003 | 68 | 2003 |
| Technique trumps relevance: the professionalization of political science and the marginalization of security studies M Desch Perspectives on Politics 13 (2), 377-393, 2015 | 50 | 2015 |
| Democracy and Victory: Fair fights or food fights? MC Desch International Security 28 (1), 180-194, 2003 | 49 | 2003 |
| Explaining the Gap: Vietnam, the Republicanization of the South, and the End of the Mass Army MC Desch Soldiers and civilians, 289-324, 2001 | 48 | 2001 |
| Why realists disagree about the Third World (and why they shouldn't) MC Desch Security Studies 5 (3), 358-381, 1996 | 46 | 1996 |
Paul C. AveyVirginia TechE-mail confirmado em vt.edu
