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| Tragedy of small power politics: Duterte and the shifting sands of Philippine foreign policy RJ Heydarian Asian Security 13 (3), 220-236, 2017 | 82 | 2017 |
| The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China, and the new struggle for global mastery RJ Heydarian, Heydarian, Dreyer Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 | 51 | 2020 |
| How capitalism failed the Arab world RJ Heydarian How Capitalism Failed the Arab World, 1-226, 2014 | 41 | 2014 |
| Asia's new battlefield: The USA, China and the struggle for the Western Pacific RJ Heydarian Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015 | 27 | 2015 |
| Mare Liberum: Aquino, Duterte, and The Philippines’ Evolving Lawfare Strategy in the South China Sea RJ Heydarian Asian Politics and Policy 10 (2), 283-299, 2018 | 22 | 2018 |
| Evolving Philippines‐US‐China strategic triangle: International and domestic drivers RJ Heydarian Asian Politics & Policy 9 (4), 564-582, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| The economics of the Arab spring RJ Heydarian Foreign Policy in Focus 21, 2011 | 17 | 2011 |
| At a strategic crossroads: ASEAN centrality amid Sino-American rivalry in the Indo-Pacific RJ Heydarian Brookings Institution, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
| Iran-Saudi relations: Rising tensions and growing rivalry RJ Heydarian Foreign Policy in Focus 6, 2010 | 15 | 2010 |
| Duterte's Dance with China RJ Heydarian Foreign Affairs, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| The quest for peace: The Aquino administration’s peace negotiations with the MILF and CPP-NPA-NDF RJ Heydarian Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre Report 5, 2015 | 14 | 2015 |
| The US-Philippine-China Triangle: From equi-balancing to counter-balancing amid the South China Sea disputes RJ Heydarian Power Politics in Asia’s Contested Waters: Territorial Disputes in the South …, 2016 | 13 | 2016 |
| What Duterte portends for Philippine foreign policy RJ Heydarian | 12 | 2016 |
| The return of the Marcos dynasty RJ Heydarian Journal of Democracy 33 (3), 62-76, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
| Quad summit next step towards an Asian NATO RJ Heydarian Asia Times, March 13, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| Duterte and the Philippines Contested Foreign Policy RJ Heydarian Retrieved August 2020, 2020 | 11 | 2020 |
| China's Silk Road project: A trap or an opportunity? RJ Heydarian Silk Road| Al Jazeera. May 17, 2017 | 11 | 2017 |
| Philippines’ haiyan tragedy: What went wrong R Heydarian Huffington Post, 2013 | 11 | 2013 |
| The ISIS chronicles: A history RG Rabil, DL Davis, RJ Heydarian, D Macgregor The National Interest 17, 2014 | 10 | 2014 |
