| No ownership, no commitment: A guide to local ownership of security sector reform L Nathan University of Birmingham, 2007 | 239* | 2007 |
| War and society: The militarisation of South Africa J Cock, L Nathan New Africa Books, 1989 | 212* | 1989 |
| Consistency and inconsistencies in South African foreign policy L Nathan International affairs 81 (2), 361-372, 2005 | 177 | 2005 |
| Community of insecurity: SADC's struggle for peace and security in southern Africa L Nathan Routledge, 2016 | 156 | 2016 |
| The frightful inadequacy of most of the statistics: A critique of Collier and Hoeffler on causes of civil war L Nathan Track Two: Constructive Approaches to Community and Political Conflict 12 (5 …, 2003 | 139* | 2003 |
| Domestic instability and security communities L Nathan European Journal of International Relations 12 (2), 275-299, 2006 | 112 | 2006 |
| 'When push comes to shove': the failure of international mediation in African civil wars: occasional paper L Nathan Track Two: Constructive Approaches to Community and Political Conflict 8 (2), 1999 | 108 | 1999 |
| " The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse": The Structural Causes of Crisis and Violence in Africa L Nathan Peace and change 25 (2), 188-207, 2000 | 105* | 2000 |
| The disbanding of the SADC Tribunal: A cautionary tale L Nathan Hum. Rts. Q. 35, 870, 2013 | 102 | 2013 |
| No ownership, no peace: the Darfur peace agreement L Nathan Crisis States Research Centre, 2006 | 94 | 2006 |
| SADC's uncommon approach to common security, 1992–2003 L Nathan Journal of Southern African Studies 32 (3), 605-622, 2006 | 77 | 2006 |
| The peacemaking effectiveness of regional organisations L Nathan Crisis States Research Centre, 2010 | 71 | 2010 |
| The changing of the guard: Armed forces and defence policy in a democratic South Africa L Nathan HSRC Publishers, 1994 | 69 | 1994 |
| The absence of common values and failure of common security in Southern Africa, 1992-2003 L Nathan Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2004 | 64 | 2004 |
| The challenge of local ownership of SSR: From donor rhetoric to practice L Nathan Local ownership and security sector reform 6, 19-35, 2008 | 62 | 2008 |
| African solutions to African problems: South Africa's foreign policy L Nathan Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2013 | 57 | 2013 |
| Interests, ideas and ideology: South Africa's policy on Darfur L Nathan African Affairs 110 (438), 55-74, 2011 | 57 | 2011 |
| Mediation and the African Union’s Panel of the Wise L Nathan Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2005 | 50 | 2005 |
| The making and unmaking of the Darfur Peace Agreement L Nathan War in Darfur and the Search for Peace, Global Equity Initiative, Harvard …, 2007 | 48 | 2007 |
| AFRICOM: A threat to Africa's security L Nathan Contemporary Security Policy 30 (1), 58-61, 2009 | 46 | 2009 |
Jacklyn CockProfessor Emeritus, Wits UniversityVerified email at wits.ac.za
