| Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse P Staniland Cornell University Press, 2014 | 790* | 2014 |
| States, Insurgents, and Wartime Political Orders P Staniland Perspectives on Politics 10 (02), 243-264, 2012 | 554 | 2012 |
| Organizing Insurgency: Networks, Resources, and Rebellion in South Asia P Staniland International Security 37 (1), 142-177, 2012 | 279 | 2012 |
| Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Insurgent Fratricide, Ethnic Defection, and the Rise of Pro-State Paramilitaries P Staniland Journal of Conflict Resolution 56 (1), 16-40, 2012 | 272 | 2012 |
| Militias, ideology, and the state P Staniland Journal of Conflict Resolution 59 (5), 770-793, 2015 | 265 | 2015 |
| Cities on Fire: Social Mobilization, State Policy, and Urban Insurgency P Staniland Comparative Political Studies 43 (12), 1623-1649, 2010 | 124 | 2010 |
| Indirect rule and varieties of governance A Naseemullah, P Staniland Governance 29 (1), 13-30, 2016 | 114 | 2016 |
| Defeating transnational insurgencies: The best offense is a good fence P Staniland The Washington Quarterly 29 (1), 21-40, 2005 | 114 | 2005 |
| Armed politics and the study of intrastate conflict P Staniland Journal of Peace Research, 0022343317698848, 2017 | 112 | 2017 |
| Armed Groups and Militarized Elections P Staniland International Studies Quarterly, 2015 | 100 | 2015 |
| Explaining civil-military relations in complex political environments: India and Pakistan in comparative perspective P Staniland Security Studies 17 (2), 322-362, 2008 | 99 | 2008 |
| Review essay: Violence and democracy P Staniland Comparative Politics 47 (1), 99-118, 2014 | 96 | 2014 |
| How and why armed groups participate in elections AM Matanock, P Staniland Perspectives on Politics 16 (3), 710-727, 2018 | 89 | 2018 |
| Institutions and worldviews in Indian foreign security policy V Narang, P Staniland India Review 11 (2), 76-94, 2012 | 80 | 2012 |
| What makes terrorists tick E Chenoweth, N Miller, E McClellan, H Frisch, P Staniland, M Abrahms International Security 33 (4), 180-202, 2009 | 66 | 2009 |
| Kashmir since 2003: Counterinsurgency and the Paradox of 'Normalcy' P Staniland Asian Survey 53 (5), 931-957, 2013 | 65 | 2013 |
| Ten ways to lose at counterinsurgency KM Greenhill, P Staniland Civil Wars 9 (4), 402-419, 2007 | 64 | 2007 |
| Ordering violence: Explaining armed group-state relations from conflict to cooperation P Staniland Cornell University Press, 2021 | 45 | 2021 |
| Explaining Cohesion, Fragmentation, and Control in Insurgent Groups PS Staniland Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2010 | 43* | 2010 |
| Democratic Accountability and Foreign Security Policy: Theory and Evidence from India V Narang, P Staniland Security Studies, 2018 | 40 | 2018 |
Vipin NarangFrank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science, MITVerified email at mit.edu
