| The sovereign state and its competitors: An analysis of systems change H Spruyt Princeton University Press, 1994 | 3131 | 1994 |
| Contracting states: Sovereign transfers in international relations A Cooley, H Spruyt Princeton University Press, 2009 | 418 | 2009 |
| Ending empire: Contested sovereignty and territorial partition H Spruyt Cornell University Press, 2018 | 274 | 2018 |
| The origins, development, and possible decline of the modern state H Spruyt Annual review of political science 5 (1), 127-149, 2002 | 243 | 2002 |
| Institutional selection in international relations: state anarchy as order H Spruyt International Organization 48 (4), 527-557, 1994 | 234 | 1994 |
| The end of empire and the extension of the Westphalian system: the normative basis of the modern state order H Spruyt International Studies Review 2 (2), 65-92, 2000 | 132 | 2000 |
| War, trade, and state formation H Spruyt | 131 | 2009 |
| The world imagined: collective beliefs and political order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian international societies H Spruyt Cambridge University Press, 2020 | 96 | 2020 |
| War and state formation: amending the bellicist theory of state making H Spruyt Does War make States?: Investigations of Charles Tilly's Historical …, 2017 | 73 | 2017 |
| The supply and demand of governance in standard-setting: insights from the past H Spruyt Journal of European Public Policy 8 (3), 371-391, 2001 | 68 | 2001 |
| Historical sociology and systems theory in international relations H Spruyt Review of International Political Economy 5 (2), 340-353, 1998 | 50 | 1998 |
| The limits of neorealism: understanding security in Central Asia R Menon, H Spruyt Review of International Studies 25 (1), 87-105, 1999 | 40 | 1999 |
| What Is the Polity? YH Ferguson, RW Mansbach, RA Denemark, H Spruyt, B Buzan, R Little, ... International Studies Review 2 (1), 3-31, 2000 | 36 | 2000 |
| “American Empire” as an Analytic Question or a Rhetorical Move? H Spruyt International Studies Perspectives 9 (3), 290-299, 2008 | 35 | 2008 |
| New institutionalism and international relations H Spruyt Global Political Economy, 117-128, 2013 | 29 | 2013 |
| Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities for Governance H Spruyt Cambridge: Polity, 1996 | 29 | 1996 |
| Possibilities for conflict and conflict resolution in post-Soviet Central Asia R Menon, H Spruyt, B Rubin, J Snyder Post-Soviet Political Order, 1997 | 25 | 1997 |
| The prospects for neo-imperial and nonimperial outcomes in the former Soviet space H Spruyt The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 9: The End of Empire? Comparative …, 2016 | 19 | 2016 |
| A new architecture for peace? Reconfiguring Japan among the great powers H Spruyt The Pacific Review 11 (3), 364-388, 1998 | 18 | 1998 |
| Diversity or uniformity in the modern world? Answers from evolutionary theory, learning, and social adaptation H Spruyt Evolutionary interpretations of world politics, 110-132, 2001 | 16 | 2001 |
