| The NGO scramble: Organizational insecurity and the political economy of transnational action A Cooley, J Ron International security 27 (1), 5-39, 2002 | 1261 | 2002 |
| Great games, local rules: the new power contest in Central Asia A Cooley Oxford University Press, 2012 | 536 | 2012 |
| Contracting States A Cooley, H Spruyt Contracting States, 2009 | 356 | 2009 |
| Base politics: democratic change and the US military overseas A Cooley Cornell University Press, 2012 | 287 | 2012 |
| Logics of Hierarchy A Cooley Logics of Hierarchy, 2011 | 281 | 2011 |
| Authoritarianism goes global: Countering democratic norms A Cooley Journal of Democracy 26 (3), 49-63, 2015 | 232 | 2015 |
| Ranking the world A Cooley, J Snyder Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 168 | 2015 |
| Dictators without borders AA Cooley, J Heathershaw Dictators Without Borders, 2017 | 157 | 2017 |
| Engagement without recognition: A new strategy toward Abkhazia and Eurasia's unrecognized states A Cooley, LA Mitchell The Washington Quarterly 33 (4), 59-73, 2010 | 101 | 2010 |
| Exit from hegemony: the unraveling of the American global order A Cooley, D Nexon Oxford University Press, 2020 | 91 | 2020 |
| “The empire will compensate you”: the structural dynamics of the US overseas basing network A Cooley, DH Nexon Perspectives on Politics 11 (4), 1034-1050, 2013 | 73 | 2013 |
| Base politics A Cooley Base Politics, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| No way to treat our friends: recasting recent US–Georgian relations A Cooley, LA Mitchell The Washington Quarterly 32 (1), 27-41, 2009 | 59 | 2009 |
| The emerging politics of international rankings and ratings: A framework for analysis A Cooley Ranking the world: Grading states as a tool of global governance, 1-38, 2015 | 56 | 2015 |
| Thinking rationally about hierarchy and global governance A Cooley Review of International Political Economy 10 (4), 672-684, 2003 | 56 | 2003 |
| Principles in the pipeline: managing transatlantic values and interests in Central Asia A Cooley International Affairs 84 (6), 1173-1188, 2008 | 55 | 2008 |
| Base motives: The political economy of Okinawa’s antimilitarism A Cooley, K Marten Armed Forces & Society 32 (4), 566-583, 2006 | 48 | 2006 |
| Imperial wreckage: Property rights, sovereignty, and security in the post-Soviet space A Cooley International Security 25 (3), 100-127, 2001 | 47 | 2001 |
| Cooperation gets shanghaied A Cooley Foreign Affairs, 2009 | 46 | 2009 |
| US bases and democratization in Central Asia A Cooley Orbis 52 (1), 65-90, 2008 | 43 | 2008 |