| America's Achilles' heel: nuclear, biological, and chemical terrorism and covert attack RA Falkenrath, RD Newman, BA Thayer MIT Press, 1998 | 358 | 1998 |
| Darwin and international relations: On the evolutionary origins of war and ethnic conflict BA Thayer University Press of Kentucky, 2009 | 309 | 2009 |
| The causes of nuclear proliferation and the utility of the nuclear non-proliferation regime BA Thayer Security Studies 4 (3), 463-519, 1995 | 168 | 1995 |
| Alliance theory and alliance ‘Shelter’: the complexities of small state alliance behaviour AJK Bailes, BA Thayer, B Thorhallsson Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal 1 (1), 9-26, 2016 | 153 | 2016 |
| Bringing in Darwin: Evolutionary theory, realism, and international politics BA Thayer International Security 25 (2), 124-151, 2000 | 141 | 2000 |
| American empire: A debate C Layne, BA Thayer Routledge, 2006 | 126 | 2006 |
| Sex and the Shaheed: Insights from the life sciences on Islamic suicide terrorism BA Thayer, VM Hudson International Security 34 (4), 37-62, 2010 | 86 | 2010 |
| The evolution of offensive realism: Survival under anarchy from the Pleistocene to the present DDP Johnson, BA Thayer Politics and the life sciences 35 (1), 1-26, 2016 | 67 | 2016 |
| America’s Achilles’ Heel RA Falkenrath, RD Newman, BA Thayer BCSIA Studies in International Security, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 223-260, 1998 | 61 | 1998 |
| The forum: The decline of war NP Gleditsch, S Pinker, BA Thayer, JS Levy, WR Thompson International Studies Review 15 (3), 396-419, 2013 | 59 | 2013 |
| The risk of nuclear inadvertence: A review essay BA Thayer Security Studies 3 (3), 428-493, 1994 | 53 | 1994 |
| Considering population and war: a critical and neglected aspect of conflict studies BA Thayer Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364 …, 2009 | 50 | 2009 |
| Deterring cyber warfare: Bolstering strategic stability in cyberspace BM Mazanec, B Thayer Springer, 2014 | 33 | 2014 |
| In defense of primacy BA Thayer The National Interest, 32-37, 2006 | 32 | 2006 |
| Start the evolution without us DSA Bell, PK MacDonald, BA Thayer International Security, 187-198, 2001 | 32 | 2001 |
| Humans, not angels: Reasons to doubt the decline of war thesis BA Thayer International Studies Review 15 (3), 405-411, 2013 | 30 | 2013 |
| The rise of Han‐centrism and what it means for international politics JM Friend, BA Thayer Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 17 (1), 91-114, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| How China sees the world: Han-centrism and the balance of power in international politics JM Friend, BA Thayer Potomac Books, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
| Thinking about nuclear deterrence theory: Why evolutionary psychology undermines its rational actor assumptions BA Thayer Comparative Strategy 26 (4), 311-323, 2007 | 24 | 2007 |
| Weapons as political symbolism: the role of US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe P Suchy, BA Thayer European security 23 (4), 509-528, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
