| When and how many: The effects of third party joining on casualties and duration in interstate wars ZC Shirkey Journal of Peace Research 49 (2), 321-334, 2012 | 37 | 2012 |
| Is this a Private Fight Or Can Anybody Join? The Spread of Interstate War ZC Shirkey Ashgate, 2009 | 28* | 2009 |
| Uncertainty and War Duration ZC Shirkey International Studies Review 18 (2), 244-267, 2016 | 25 | 2016 |
| Going Beyond the Existing Consensus: The Use of Games in International Relations Education M Lee, ZC Shirkey PS: Political Science and Politics 50 (2), 571-575, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
| Joining by Number: Military Intervention in Civil Wars ZC Shirkey Civil Wars 18 (4), 417-438, 2016 | 14 | 2016 |
| Joining the Fray: Outside Military Intervention in Civil Wars ZC Shirkey Ashgate, 2012 | 12* | 2012 |
| MILITARY INTERVENTION IN INTERSTATE AND CIVIL WARS: A UNIFIED INTERPRETATION ZC Shirkey Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory, 534-549, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| Challenges to the Study of Long Wars ZC Shirkey Polity 50 (2), 225-237, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| An Annotated Bibliography for the Correlates of War Interstate Wars Database ZC Shirkey, A Weisiger Correlates of War Project, 2007 | 6* | 2007 |
| Which Wars Spread? Commitment Problems and Military Intervention ZC Shirkey Conflict Management and Peace Science 37 (2), 133-151, 2020 | 5 | 2020 |
| Uncertainty, threat, and international security: Implications for Southeast Asia I Savic, ZC Shirkey Taylor & Francis, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| Trust in the Balance: Asymmetric Information, Commitment Problems and Balancing Behavior I Savic, ZC Shirkey Journal of Theoretical Politics 21 (4), 483-507, 2009 | 5 | 2009 |
| America Can’t Escape the Middle East ZC Shirkey NAT’L INT.(July 29, 2013), http://nationalinterest. org/commentary …, 2013 | 3 | 2013 |
| Courts and State-Building: The Welsh Marcher Lordships and the Somali Union of Islamic Courts ZC Shirkey Polity 54 (2), 197-224, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Is this a Private Fight or May Anybody Join? Unexpected Events and the Spread of Inter-state War ZC Shirkey Ph. D. diss., Political Science, Columbia University, 2006 | 2* | 2006 |
| Constructing Global Order: Agency and Change in World Politics by Amitav Acharya ZC Shirkey Journal of Interdisciplinary History 49 (4), 653-654, 2019 | 1 | 2019 |
| Introduction: The Puzzle of War Duration ZC Shirkey Polity 50 (2), 162-167, 2018 | 1 | 2018 |
| Turning to Political Violence: The Emergence of Terrorism by Marc Sageman ZC Shirkey Journal of Interdisciplinary History 48 (4), 546-547, 2018 | 1 | 2018 |
| Critical Dialogue: The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency and American Dove: US Foreign Policy and the Failure of Force ZC Shirkey, J Mueller Perspectives on Politics 19 (4), 1285-1289, 2021 | | 2021 |
| America’s Use of Terror: From Colonial Times to the A-Bomb ZC Shirkey Journal of Interdisciplinary History 51 (2), 328-329, 2020 | | 2020 |
