| Somaliland's best kept secret: shrewd politics and war projects as means of state-making D Balthasar Journal of Eastern African Studies 7 (2), 218-238, 2013 | 73 | 2013 |
| From hybridity to standardization: rethinking state-making in contexts of fragility D Balthasar Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 9 (1), 26-47, 2015 | 44 | 2015 |
| ‘Peace-building as state-building’? Rethinking liberal interventionism in contexts of emerging states D Balthasar Conflict, Security & Development 17 (6), 473-491, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| Oil in Somalia: adding fuel to the fire D Balthasar The Heritage Institute for Policy Studies, 1-14, 2014 | 26 | 2014 |
| State-making in Somalia and Somaliland: understanding war, nationalism and state trajectories as processes of institutional and socio-cognitive standardization D Balthasar London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012 | 20 | 2012 |
| On the (in) compatibility of peace-building and state-making: evidence from Somaliland D Balthasar The Journal of Development Studies 55 (4), 457-472, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
| State Making in Somalia under Siyad Barre: Scrutinizing Historical Amnesia and Normative Bias D Balthasar The International Journal of African Historical Studies 51 (1), 141-162, 2018 | 14 | 2018 |
| The Wars in the North and the Creation of Somaliland D Balthasar World Peace Foundation 213, 28, 2013 | 13 | 2013 |
| Somalia: unable to escape its past? Revisiting the roots of a fractured state and elusive nation D Balthasar Critical African Studies 6 (2-3), 223-239, 2014 | 11 | 2014 |
| Somalia's Federal Agenda: From Fragility to Fragmentation?. D Balthasar European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
| State-making at gunpoint: The role of violent conflict in Somaliland’s march to statehood D Balthasar Civil Wars 19 (1), 65-86, 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
| In search of more than a state: trajectories of political ordering and identity plurality in Somalia D Balthasar African Identities 15 (2), 171-186, 2017 | 8 | 2017 |
| Between State and Non-state. Somaliland’s Emerging Security Order.’ D Balthasar, J Grzybowski Small Arms Survey. Small Arms Survey, 146-73, 2012 | 6 | 2012 |
| Thinking Beyond Roadmaps in Somalia D Balthasar The New Southbound Policy/Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2014 | 5 | 2014 |
| Thinking Beyond Roadmaps in Somalia: Expanding Policy Options for State Building D Balthasar Center for Strategic & International Studies, 2014 | 4 | 2014 |
| Futuring Fragility: Embracing uncertainty, identifying opportunity, unlocking development D Balthasar Development Policy Review, e12779, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
| State-building ‘off the beaten track’: Insights from Somaliland D Balthasar Sicherheits-und Friedensordnungen in Afrika, 187-204, 2019 | 1 | 2019 |
| The 2013 London Conference on Somalia:“New Deal” but old principles?# Somalia2013 D Balthasar Africa at LSE, 2013 | 1 | 2013 |
| States of fragility: Where to in 2019? D Balthasar SwissPeace., 2022 | | 2022 |
| Collaborating for Peace: An Analysis of Networks of Cooperation in Somalia D Balthasar, A Osei | | 2019 |
