| Border management in an era of ‘statebuilding lite’: security assistance and Lebanon's hybrid sovereignty S Tholens International Affairs 93 (4), 865-882, 2017 | 51 | 2017 |
| ‘Tesco for Terrorists’ Reconsidered: Arms and Conflict Dynamics in Libya and in the Sahara-Sahel Region F Strazzari, S Tholens European journal on criminal policy and research 20, 343-360, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| Diffusion, contestation and localisation in post-war states: 20 years of Western Balkans reconstruction S Tholens, L Groß Journal of International Relations and Development 18, 249-264, 2015 | 32 | 2015 |
| An EU–South Mediterranean energy community: The right policy for the right region? S Tholens The International Spectator 49 (2), 34-49, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| Another Nakba: weapons availability and the transformation of the Palestinian national struggle, 1987–2007 F Strazzari, S Tholens International Studies Perspectives 11 (2), 112-130, 2010 | 16 | 2010 |
| Resisting Europe: Practices of contestation in the Mediterranean middle east R Del Sarto, S Tholens University of Michigan Press, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| Security assistance in a post-interventionist era: the impact on limited statehood in Lebanon and Tunisia RH Santini, S Tholens Rethinking Statehood in the Middle East and North Africa, 113-136, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| Practices of intervention: Assembling security force assistance in Lebanon S Tholens Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 15 (5), 647-664, 2021 | 13 | 2021 |
| Winning the post-war: norm localisation and small arms control in Kosovo and Cambodia S Tholens Journal of International Relations and Development 22, 50-76, 2019 | 13* | 2019 |
| Theorizing Capacity Building C Bueger, S Tholens Capacity Building for Maritime Security, 21-45, 2021 | 11* | 2021 |
| Which and whose authority? EU support to security governance in Aceh S Tholens The European Union as an Actor in Security Sector Reform, 156-171, 2017 | 10 | 2017 |
| (Re) ordering the Mediterranean: The evolution of security assistance as an international practice S Tholens, A Al-Jabassini Mediterranean politics, 1-21, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
| The elephant in the med: Postcoloniality and European security assistance practices S Tholens, C Ruffa Mediterranean politics, 1-24, 2023 | 3 | 2023 |
| Conflict at the EU’s Southern Borders: The Sahel Crisis R Del Sarto, S Tholens Open Democracy, 2013 | 3 | 2013 |
| Security Cooperation or Engineering the European Borderlands? Promoting EU Integrated Border Management in Lebanon S Tholens British International Studies Association Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 15-17, 2016 | 2 | 2016 |
| Privatized security in the post-war Western Balkans: The (in) visible hand on the monopoly of force S Tholens, F Strazzari World International Studies Committee–Second Global International Studies …, 2008 | 2 | 2008 |
| Practices of imperial identity: patterns and paradoxes in EU trade and energy policies towards the Maghreb S Tholens Bloomsbury, 2018 | 1 | 2018 |
| European integration and transformation in the Western Balkans: Europeanisation or business as usual? S Tholens East European Politics 31 (1), 122-123, 2015 | 1 | 2015 |
| Multi-stakeholder partnerships in DDR and SALW-control: local ownership, norms and human security S Tholens, F Strazzari Multi-Stakeholder Security Partnerships, 59-80, 2011 | 1 | 2011 |
| The Private Security Industry in the Post-War Balkans: a blank in Security Sector Reform Strategies F Strazzari, S Tholens Security in the West. Evolution of a Concept, 134-149, 2009 | 1 | 2009 |
