| Unrecognized states: The struggle for sovereignty in the modern international system N Caspersen Polity Press / John Wiley & Sons, 2013 | 603 | 2013 |
| Unrecognized States in the International System N Caspersen, G Stansfield Routledge, 2011 | 257 | 2011 |
| Playing the recognition game: External actors and de facto states N Caspersen The International Spectator 44 (4), 47-60, 2009 | 159 | 2009 |
| Good fences make good neighbours? A comparison of conflict-regulation strategies in postwar Bosnia N Caspersen Journal of Peace Research 41 (5), 569-588, 2004 | 141 | 2004 |
| Separatism and Democracy in the Caucasus N Caspersen Survival 50 (4), 113-136, 2008 | 130 | 2008 |
| Degrees of legitimacy: Ensuring internal and external support in the absence of recognition N Caspersen Geoforum 66, 184-192, 2015 | 114 | 2015 |
| Democracy, nationalism and (lack of) sovereignty: the complex dynamics of democratisation in unrecognised states† N Caspersen Nations and nationalism 17 (2), 337-356, 2011 | 107 | 2011 |
| Contested nationalism: Serb elite rivalry in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s N Caspersen Berghahn Books, 2010 | 105 | 2010 |
| The pursuit of international recognition after Kosovo N Caspersen Global Governance 21 (3), 393, 2015 | 86 | 2015 |
| Recognition, status quo or reintegration: Engagement with de facto states N Caspersen The Politics of International Interaction with de facto States, 39-55, 2020 | 66 | 2020 |
| Between puppets and independent actors: Kin-state involvement in the conflicts in Bosnia, Croatia and Nagorno Karabakh N Caspersen Ethnopolitics 7 (4), 357-372, 2008 | 64 | 2008 |
| From Kosovo to Karabakh: International responses to de facto states N Caspersen Comparative Southeast European Studies 56 (1), 58-83, 2008 | 57 | 2008 |
| Making peace with de facto states N Caspersen ALPPI Annual of Language & Politics and Politics of Identity 10 (10), 7-18, 2016 | 44 | 2016 |
| Peace agreements: Finding solutions to intra-state conflicts N Caspersen Polity Press / John Wiley & Sons, 2017 | 43 | 2017 |
| Elite interests and the Serbian-Montenegrin conflict N Caspersen Southeast European Politics 4 (2-3), 104-121, 2003 | 43 | 2003 |
| States without sovereignty: imitating democratic statehood N Caspersen Unrecognized States in the International System, eds Nina Caspersen & Gareth …, 2011 | 42 | 2011 |
| Intragroup divisions in ethnic conflicts: From popular grievances to power struggles N Caspersen Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 14 (2), 239-265, 2008 | 42 | 2008 |
| Introduction: unrecognized states in the international system N Caspersen, G Stansfield Unrecognized States in the International System, 1-8, 2012 | 35 | 2012 |
| Belgrade, Pale, Knin: Kin-state control over rebellious puppets? N Caspersen Europe-Asia Studies 59 (4), 621-641, 2007 | 31 | 2007 |
| The thorny issue of ethnic autonomy in Croatia: Serb leaders and proposals for autonomy N Caspersen JEMIE, i, 2003 | 28 | 2003 |
