| Military orientalism: Eastern war through Western eyes P Porter Columbia University Press, 2009 | 413 | 2009 |
| Why America's grand strategy has not changed: Power, habit, and the US Foreign policy establishment P Porter International Security 42 (4), 9-46, 2018 | 249 | 2018 |
| The false promise of liberal order: Nostalgia, delusion and the rise of Trump P Porter John Wiley & Sons, 2020 | 124 | 2020 |
| The global village myth: Distance, war, and the limits of power P Porter Georgetown University Press, 2015 | 114 | 2015 |
| Good anthropology, bad history: The cultural turn in studying war P Porter The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters 37 (2), 8, 2007 | 105 | 2007 |
| Bereaved and aggrieved: combat motivation and the ideology of sacrifice in the First World War A Watson, P Porter Historical Research 83 (219), 146-164, 2010 | 74 | 2010 |
| A world imagined: Nostalgia and liberal order P Porter Cato Institute Policy Analysis 843, 1-24, 2018 | 73 | 2018 |
| Why Britain doesn't do grand strategy P Porter The RUSI Journal 155 (4), 6-12, 2010 | 73 | 2010 |
| Last charge of the knights? Iraq, Afghanistan and the special relationship P Porter International Affairs 86 (2), 355-375, 2010 | 64 | 2010 |
| Blunder: Britain's war in Iraq P Porter Oxford University Press, USA, 2018 | 46 | 2018 |
| Advice for a dark age: Managing great power competition P Porter The Washington Quarterly 42 (1), 7-25, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
| Long wars and long telegrams: containing Al-Qaeda P Porter International Affairs 85 (2), 285-305, 2009 | 35 | 2009 |
| Taking uncertainty seriously: Classical realism and national security P Porter European Journal of International Security 1 (2), 239-260, 2016 | 29 | 2016 |
| Sharing Power?: Prospects for a US Concert-balance Strategy P Porter Strategic Studies Institute and US Army War College Press, 2013 | 26 | 2013 |
| Beyond the American century: Walter Lippmann and American grand strategy, 1943–1950 P Porter Diplomacy & Statecraft 22 (4), 557-577, 2011 | 21 | 2011 |
| Desert shield of the republic? A realist case for abandoning the Middle East D Blagden, P Porter Security Studies 30 (1), 5-48, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| Beyond comfort: German and English military chaplains and the memory of the great war, 1919–1929 P Porter Journal of religious history 29 (3), 258-289, 2005 | 18 | 2005 |
| Iraq: a liberal war after all: a critique of Dan Deudney and John Ikenberry P Porter International politics 55, 334-348, 2018 | 15 | 2018 |
| New Jerusalems: Sacrifice and Redemption in the War Experiences of English and German Military Chaplains P Porter Warfare and Belligerence, 101-132, 2005 | 14 | 2005 |
| Countering China's Adventurism Over Taiwan: A Third Way P Porter, M Mazarr Lowy Institute for International Policy., 2022 | 13 | 2022 |
