| Alignment despite antagonism: the United States-Korea-Japan security triangle VD Cha Stanford University Press, 1999 | 666 | 1999 |
| The impossible state: North Korea, past and future VD Cha Random House, 2012 | 515 | 2012 |
| Nuclear North Korea: A debate on engagement strategies V Cha, D Kang Columbia University Press, 2018 | 491 | 2018 |
| Powerplay: Origins of the US alliance system in Asia VD Cha International Security 34 (3), 158-196, 2010 | 463 | 2010 |
| Globalization and the study of international security VD Cha Journal of Peace Research 37 (3), 391-403, 2000 | 355 | 2000 |
| Abandonment, entrapment, and neoclassical realism in Asia: the United States, Japan, and Korea VD Cha International Studies Quarterly 44 (2), 261-291, 2000 | 288 | 2000 |
| Beyond the final score: The politics of sport in Asia VD Cha Columbia University Press, 2008 | 242 | 2008 |
| Powerplay: The origins of the American alliance system in Asia V Cha Princeton University Press, 2016 | 238 | 2016 |
| Hawk engagement and preventive defense on the Korean Peninsula VD Cha International Security 27 (1), 40-78, 2002 | 200 | 2002 |
| The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States B Glosserman, SA Snyder Columbia University Press, 2015 | 180 | 2015 |
| Korea's Place in the Axis VD Cha Foreign Affairs, 79-92, 2002 | 146 | 2002 |
| A theory of sport and politics VD Cha The international journal of the history of sport 26 (11), 1581-1610, 2009 | 129 | 2009 |
| Complex patchworks: US alliances as part of Asia’s regional architecture VD Cha Asia Policy, 27-50, 2011 | 128 | 2011 |
| North Korea's weapons of mass destruction: Badges, shields, or swords? VD Cha Political Science Quarterly 117 (2), 209-230, 2002 | 127 | 2002 |
| US Force Posture Strategy in the Asia Pacific Region: An Independent Assessment D Berteau, MJ Green, GT Kiley, NF Szechenyi, EZ Bower, V Cha, ... Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2012 | 107 | 2012 |
| What do they really want?: Obama's North Korea conundrum VD Cha The Washington Quarterly 32 (4), 119-138, 2009 | 94 | 2009 |
| Bridging the gap: The strategic context of the 1965 Korea-Japan normalization treaty VD Cha Korean Studies 20 (1), 123-160, 1996 | 82 | 1996 |
| Winning Asia-Washington's Untold Success Story VD Cha Foreign Aff. 86, 98, 2007 | 72 | 2007 |
| Politics and democracy under the Kim Young Sam government: Something old, something new VD Cha Asian Survey 33 (9), 849-863, 1993 | 63 | 1993 |
| The Korea Crisis VD Cha, DC Kang Foreign Policy, 20-28, 2003 | 60 | 2003 |
