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| Against the concept of ethnic conflict B Gilley Third world quarterly 25 (6), 1155-1166, 2004 | 232 | 2004 |
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| Middle powers and the rise of China B Gilley, A O'Neil Georgetown University Press, 2014 | 122 | 2014 |
| Democratic enclaves in authoritarian regimes B Gilley Twenty Years of Studying Democratization, 99-125, 2016 | 114 | 2016 |
| Middle powers during great power transitions: China's rise and the future of Canada-US relations B Gilley International Journal 66 (2), 245-264, 2011 | 86 | 2011 |
| China’s rise through the prism of middle powers B Gilley, A O’Neil Middle powers and the rise of China, 1-22, 2014 | 80 | 2014 |
| In search of legitimacy in post-revolutionary China: Bringing ideology and governance back in H Holbig, B Gilley GIGA-German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2010 | 78 | 2010 |
| The nature of Asian politics B Gilley Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 62 | 2014 |
