| Age of secession RD Griffiths Cambridge University Press, 2016 | 82 | 2016 |
| Membership has its privileges: The changing benefits of statehood TM Fazal, RD Griffiths International Studies Review 16 (1), 79-106, 2014 | 76 | 2014 |
| Between dissolution and blood: How administrative lines and categories shape secessionist outcomes RD Griffiths International Organization, 731-751, 2015 | 49 | 2015 |
| Introducing the international system (s) dataset (ISD), 1816–2011 RD Griffiths, CR Butcher International Interactions 39 (5), 748-768, 2013 | 36 | 2013 |
| Between the sword and the wall: S pain's limited options for C atalan secessionism RD Griffiths, P Guillen Alvarez, F Martinez i Coma Nations and nationalism 21 (1), 43-61, 2015 | 33 | 2015 |
| Admission to the sovereignty club: The past, present, and future of the international recognition regime RD Griffiths Territory, Politics, Governance 5 (2), 177-189, 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
| Between Eurocentrism and Babel: A framework for the analysis of states, state systems, and international orders CR Butcher, RD Griffiths International Studies Quarterly 61 (2), 328-336, 2017 | 22 | 2017 |
| Secession and the invisible hand of the international system R Griffiths Review of International Studies, 559-581, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| A State of One's Own: The Rise of Secession Since World War II T Fazal, R Griffiths Brown J. World Aff. 15, 199, 2008 | 22 | 2008 |
| Globalization and separatism: The influence of internal and external interdependence on the strategies of separatism I Savić, R Griffiths Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 8 (2-3), 429-454, 2009 | 15 | 2009 |
| Alternative international systems? System structure and violent conflict in nineteenth-century West Africa, Southeast Asia, and South Asia C Butcher, R Griffiths Review of International Studies, 715-737, 2015 | 14 | 2015 |
| Does violent secessionism work? RD Griffiths, LM Wasser Journal of Conflict Resolution 63 (5), 1310-1336, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| States, nations, and territorial stability: Why Chinese hegemony would be better for international order RD Griffiths Security Studies 25 (3), 519-545, 2016 | 11 | 2016 |
| The future of self-determination and territorial integrity in the Asian Century R Griffiths The Pacific Review 27 (3), 457-478, 2014 | 9 | 2014 |
| Security threats, linguistic homogeneity, and the necessary conditions for political unification RD Griffiths Nations and Nationalism 16 (1), 169-188, 2010 | 9 | 2010 |
| Who counts? Why do governments deny secession in some cases but not others? RD Griffiths Muro, D., Woertz, E. Secession and Counter-secession: an International …, 2018 | 6 | 2018 |
| The Waltzian ordering principle and international change: A two-dimensional model RD Griffiths European Journal of International Relations 24 (1), 130-152, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| 6 Kurdistan’s independence and the international system of sovereign states RD Griffiths Iraqi Kurdistan in Middle Eastern Politics, 120-134, 2016 | 5 | 2016 |
| Problems in the use of risk criteria RF Griffiths Dealing with Risk: The Planning, Management and Acceptability of …, 1981 | 4 | 1981 |
| Secessionist strategy and tactical variation in the pursuit of independence RD Griffiths Journal of Global Security Studies 6 (1), ogz082, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
