| Authoritarian learning and authoritarian resilience: regime responses to the ‘Arab Awakening’ S Heydemann, R Leenders Globalizations 8 (5), 647-653, 2011 | 229 | 2011 |
| Know thy enemy: Hizbullah,‘terrorism’and the politics of perception M Harb, R Leenders Third World Quarterly 26 (1), 173-197, 2005 | 204 | 2005 |
| Spoils of truce: Corruption and state-building in postwar Lebanon R Leenders Cornell University Press, 2012 | 187 | 2012 |
| Spoils of truce: Corruption and state-building in postwar Lebanon R Leenders Cornell University Press, 2012 | 187 | 2012 |
| Popular mobilization in Syria: opportunity and threat, and the social networks of the early risers R Leenders, S Heydemann Mediterranean politics 17 (2), 139-159, 2012 | 134 | 2012 |
| Middle East authoritarianisms: governance, contestation, and regime resilience in Syria and Iran S Heydemann, R Leenders Stanford University Press, 2013 | 82 | 2013 |
| Collective action and mobilization in Dar'a: An anatomy of the onset of Syria's popular uprising R Leenders Mobilization: an international quarterly 17 (4), 419-434, 2012 | 70 | 2012 |
| Nobody having too much to answer for: Laissez-faire, networks, and postwar reconstruction in Lebanon R Leenders Networks of Privilege in the Middle East: The Politics of Economic Reform …, 2004 | 54 | 2004 |
| 4. Authoritarian Learning and Counterrevolution S Heydemann, R Leenders The Arab uprisings explained, 75-92, 2014 | 51 | 2014 |
| Social movement theory and the onset of the popular uprising in Syria R Leenders Arab Studies Quarterly 35 (3), 273-289, 2013 | 51 | 2013 |
| Social movement theory and the onset of the popular uprising in Syria R Leenders Arab Studies Quarterly 35 (3), 273-289, 2013 | 51 | 2013 |
| ‘Regional conflict formations’: Is the Middle East next? R Leenders Third World Quarterly 28 (5), 959-982, 2007 | 40 | 2007 |
| Refugee warriors or war refugees? Iraqi refugees' predicament in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon R Leenders Mediterranean Politics 14 (3), 343-363, 2009 | 38 | 2009 |
| How the Rebel Regained His Cause: Hizbullah & the Sixth Arab-Israeli War R Leenders MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 6 (2), 38-56, 2006 | 31 | 2006 |
| Iraqi Refugees in Syria: causing a spillover of the Iraqi conflict? R Leenders Third World Quarterly 29 (8), 1563-1584, 2008 | 30 | 2008 |
| Authoritarian Governance in Syria and Iran S Heydemann, R Leenders Middle east authoritarianisms: Governance, contestation, and regime …, 2013 | 28 | 2013 |
| Middle East and North Africa R Leenders, J Sfakianakis Global Corruption Report, 203-214, 2003 | 23 | 2003 |
| In Search of the State: The Politics of Corruption in Post-War Lebanon R Leenders unpublished essay,(May 2004), 2004 | 18 | 2004 |
| Middle Eastern minorities: The impact of the Arab spring I Zabad Taylor & Francis, 2017 | 17 | 2017 |
| Humanitarianism, state sovereignty, and authoritarian regime maintenance in the Syrian War R Leenders, K Mansour Political Science Quarterly 133 (2), 225-257, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
