| The power problem: How American military dominance makes us less safe, less prosperous, and less free CA Preble Cornell University Press, 2019 | 139 | 2019 |
| Failed states and flawed logic: the case against a standing nation-building office C Preble, J Logan | 76 | 2006 |
| “Who Ever Believed in the ‘Missile Gap’?”: John F. Kennedy and the Politics of National Security CA Preble Presidential Studies Quarterly 33 (4), 801-826, 2003 | 69 | 2003 |
| John F. Kennedy and the missile gap CA Preble (No Title), 2004 | 56 | 2004 |
| Fixing failed states: A cure worse than the disease? J Logan, C Preble Harvard International Review 29 (4), 62-67, 2008 | 27 | 2008 |
| Terrorizing ourselves: Why US counterterrorism policy is failing and how to fix it BH Friedman, J Harper, CA Preble Cato Institute, 2010 | 25 | 2010 |
| Exiting Iraq: why the US must end the military occupation and renew the war against Al Qaeda: report of a special task force CA Preble Cato institute, 2004 | 21 | 2004 |
| Russia, Turkey and the Black Sea A2/AD Arms Race B Kurtdarcan, B Kayaoğlu, G Beebe, CA Preble, R Hinata-Yamaguchi The National Interest 5, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| A Dangerous World?: Threat Perception and US National Security CA Preble, J Mueller Cato Institute, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
| Fixing failed states: A dissenting view J Logan, C Preble The handbook on the political economy of war, 2011 | 18 | 2011 |
| The Bush Doctrine and “Rogue” States C Preble Foreign Service Journal 92, 2005 | 17 | 2005 |
| Two Normal Countries: Rethinking the US-Japan Strategic Relationship C Preble | 16 | 2006 |
| The end of overkill: Reassessing US nuclear weapons policy B Friedman, C Preble, M Fay Cato Institute, 2013 | 15 | 2013 |
| Budgetary savings from military restraint B Friedman, C Preble Cato Institute Policy Analysis, 2010 | 14 | 2010 |
| The Founders, Executive Power, and Military Intervention CA Preble Pace L. Rev. 30, 688, 2009 | 14 | 2009 |
| Learning the right lessons from Iraq BH Friedman, H Sapolsky, C Preble Cato Policy Analysis Series, 2008 | 14 | 2008 |
| John F CA Preble Kennedy and the Missile Gap, 67-68, 2004 | 13 | 2004 |
| ‘Who Ever Believed in the CA Preble Missile Gap, 801-26, 0 | 12 | |
| Ripe for Reform: Six Good Reasons to Reduce US Farm Subsidies and Trade Barriers DT Griswold, S Slivinski, CA Preble Cato Institute, 2005 | 11 | 2005 |
| Towards a more prudent American grand strategy J Glaser, CA Preble, AT Thrall Survival 61 (5), 25-42, 2019 | 10 | 2019 |
