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| Legitimacy and institutional change: The case of China B Gilley Comparative Political Studies 41 (3), 259-284, 2008 | 240 | 2008 |
| Against the concept of ethnic conflict B Gilley Third world quarterly 25 (6), 1155-1166, 2004 | 238 | 2004 |
| Tiger on the brink: Jiang Zemin and China's new elite B Gilley Univ of California Press, 1998 | 178 | 1998 |
| Not So Dire Straits: How the Finlandization of Taiwan Benefits US Security B Gilley Foreign Aff. 89, 44, 2010 | 172 | 2010 |
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| Middle Powers and the Rise of China B Gilley Georgetown University Press, 2014 | 136 | 2014 |
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| Democratic enclaves in authoritarian regimes B Gilley Twenty Years of Studying Democratization, 99-125, 2016 | 126 | 2016 |
| Middle powers during great power transitions: China's rise and the future of Canada-US relations B Gilley International Journal 66 (2), 245-264, 2011 | 95 | 2011 |
| China’s rise through the prism of middle powers B Gilley, A O’Neil Middle powers and the rise of China, 1-22, 2014 | 86 | 2014 |
| In search of legitimacy in post-revolutionary China: Bringing ideology and governance back in H Holbig, B Gilley GIGA-German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2010 | 78 | 2010 |
| Turkey, Middle Powers, and the New Humanitarianism B Gilley Perceptions 20 (1), 37-58, 2015 | 75 | 2015 |
