| The successful laggards: Bulgaria and Romania's accession to the EU G Noutcheva, D Bechev East European politics and societies 22 (1), 114-144, 2008 | 278 | 2008 |
| EU conditionality in South East Europe: bringing commitment to the process O Anastasakis, D Bechev South East European Studies Programme, 1-20, 2003 | 242 | 2003 |
| Rival power: Russia's influence in Southeast Europe D Bechev Yale University Press, 2017 | 185 | 2017 |
| Carrots, sticks and norms: the EU and regional cooperation in Southeast Europe D Bechev Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans 8 (1), 27-43, 2006 | 156 | 2006 |
| The Periphery of the periphery: the Western Balkans and the Euro Crisis D Bechev European Council on Foreign Relations, 2012 | 129 | 2012 |
| Constructing South East Europe: the politics of Balkan regional cooperation D Bechev Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 | 115 | 2011 |
| Turkey in the Balkans: Taking a broader view D Bechev Insight Turkey 14 (1), 131-146, 2012 | 100 | 2012 |
| From Policy to Polity: Can the EU's Special Relations with its ‘Neighbourhood’be Decentred? D Bechev, K Nicolaidis JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 48 (3), 475-500, 2010 | 98 | 2010 |
| Contested borders, contested identity: the case of regionalism in Southeast Europe D Bechev Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 4 (1), 77-95, 2004 | 86 | 2004 |
| Constructing South East Europe: The politics of regional identity in the Balkans D Bechev European Studies Centre. University of Oxford, 2006 | 69 | 2006 |
| Top-down vs bottom-up aspects of the EU institution-building strategies in the Western Balkans D Bechev, S Andreev Occasional Paper 3 (05), 2005 | 61 | 2005 |
| Russia’s strategic interests and tools of influence in the Western Balkans D Bechev NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, 2019 | 54 | 2019 |
| Historical dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia D Bechev Scarecrow Press, 2009 | 51 | 2009 |
| Mediterranean frontiers: Borders, conflict and memory in a transnational world D Bechev, K Nicolaidis Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009 | 48 | 2009 |
| Russia’s return to the Middle East N Popescu, S Secrieru, J Barnes-Dacey, D Bechev, T Borisov, ... European Union Institue For Security Studies Chaillot Papers, 2018 | 44 | 2018 |
| Understanding the contest between the EU and Russia in their shared neighborhood D Bechev Problems of Post-Communism 62 (6), 340-349, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
| From policy-takers to policy-makers? Observations on Bulgarian and Romanian foreign policy before and after EU accession D Bechev The European Union's 2007 Enlargement, 62-76, 2014 | 38 | 2014 |
| The Union for the Mediterranean: a genuine breakthrough or more of the same? D Bechev, K Nicolaidis The International Spectator 43 (3), 13-20, 2008 | 31 | 2008 |
| Turkey Under Erdoğan D Bechev Yale University Press, 2022 | 30 | 2022 |
| The 2016 Coup Attempt in Montenegro: Is Russia’s Balkans Footprint Expanding? D Bechev FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2018 | 30 | 2018 |
