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| Sanctions and regime type: What works, and when? RA Brooks Security Studies 11 (4), 1-50, 2002 | 248 | 2002 |
| Political-military relations and the stability of Arab regimes R Brooks Routledge, 2013 | 221 | 2013 |
| Creating military power: The sources of military effectiveness R Brooks Stanford University Press, 2007 | 214 | 2007 |
| Muslim “homegrown” terrorism in the United States: How serious is the threat? RA Brooks International Security 36 (2), 7-47, 2011 | 180 | 2011 |
| Abandoned at the palace: Why the Tunisian military defected from the Ben Ali regime in January 2011 R Brooks Journal of Strategic Studies 36 (2), 205-220, 2013 | 175 | 2013 |
| Integrating the civil–military relations subfield RA Brooks Annual Review of Political Science 22, 379-398, 2019 | 160 | 2019 |
| Paradoxes of professionalism: Rethinking civil-military relations in the United States R Brooks International Security 44 (4), 7-44, 2020 | 106 | 2020 |
| Making military might: Why do states fail and succeed? A review essay RA Brooks International Security, 149-191, 2003 | 105 | 2003 |
| Democracy, southern European style TC Bruneau, PN Diamandouros, R Gunther, A Lijphart, L Morlino, ... Parties, politics, and democracy in the New Southern Europe, 16-82, 2001 | 102 | 2001 |
| Introduction: The Impact of Culture, Society, Institutions, and International Forces on Military Effectiveness RA Brooks Creating military power: The sources of military effectiveness, 1-26, 2007 | 93 | 2007 |
| An autocracy at war: Explaining Egypt's military effectiveness, 1967 and 1973 R Brooks Security Studies 15 (3), 396-430, 2006 | 61 | 2006 |
| Militaries and political activity in democracies RA Brooks American civil-military relations: The soldier and the state in a new era …, 2009 | 55 | 2009 |
| Researching democracy and terrorism: how political access affects militant activity R Brooks Security Studies 18 (4), 756-788, 2009 | 48 | 2009 |
| THE MILITARY AND HOMELAND SECURITY. RA Brooks Policy & Management Review 2 (2), 2002 | 35 | 2002 |
| Military defection and the Arab Spring RA Brooks Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
| Civil-military relations in the Middle East R Brooks The Future Security Environment in the Middle East, RAND, 129-162, 2003 | 31 | 2003 |
| Crisis of Command: America's Broken Civil-Military Relationship Imperils National Security R Brooks, J Golby, H Urben Foreign Aff. 100, 64, 2021 | 26 | 2021 |
| Civil-military relations and military effectiveness: Egypt in the 1967 and 1973 wars RA Brooks Creating military power: The sources of military effectiveness, 106-135, 2007 | 22 | 2007 |
| Liberalization and militancy in the Arab World RA Brooks FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2002 | 19 | 2002 |
