| Failing to win: Perceptions of victory and defeat in international politics DDP Johnson, D Tierney Harvard University Press, 2006 | 235 | 2006 |
| The Rubicon theory of war: How the path to conflict reaches the point of no return DDP Johnson, D Tierney International Security 36 (1), 7-40, 2011 | 157 | 2011 |
| FDR and the Spanish Civil War: neutrality and commitment in the struggle that divided America D Tierney Duke University Press, 2007 | 89 | 2007 |
| Irrelevant or malevolent? UN arms embargoes in civil wars D Tierney Review of International Studies 31 (4), 645, 2005 | 67 | 2005 |
| Bad world: The negativity bias in international politics DDP Johnson, D Tierney International Security 43 (3), 96-140, 2018 | 53 | 2018 |
| How we fight: crusades, quagmires, and the American way of war D Tierney Hachette UK, 2010 | 50 | 2010 |
| The Legacy of Obama’s ‘Worst Mistake’ D Tierney Atlantic, 2016 | 48 | 2016 |
| The arsenal of insurrection: explaining rising support for rebels R Grauer, D Tierney Security Studies 27 (2), 263-295, 2018 | 40 | 2018 |
| The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts D Tierney Hachette UK, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
| “Pearl Harbor in Reverse” Moral Analogies in the Cuban Missile Crisis D Tierney Journal of Cold War Studies 9 (3), 49-77, 2007 | 36 | 2007 |
| Does chain-ganging cause the outbreak of war? D Tierney International Studies Quarterly 55 (2), 285-304, 2011 | 28 | 2011 |
| Essence of victory: Winning and losing international crises D Johnson, D Tierney Security Studies 13 (2), 350-381, 2003 | 27 | 2003 |
| Multilateralism: America’s insurance policy against loss D Tierney European Journal of International Relations 17 (4), 655-678, 2011 | 26 | 2011 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt and Covert Aid to the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 D Tierney Journal of Contemporary History 39 (3), 299-313, 2004 | 26 | 2004 |
| The Obama Doctrine and the Lessons of Iraq D Tierney E-Notes, 2012 | 19 | 2012 |
| In the eye of the beholder: victory and defeat in US military operations D Johnson, D Tierney Understanding victory and defeat in contemporary war, 46-76, 2006 | 14 | 2006 |
| The Twenty Years' War D Tierney Atlantic, 2016 | 13 | 2016 |
| The Future of Sino-US Proxy War (Spring 2021) D Tierney Texas National Security Review, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
| Prisoner dilemmas: the American obsession with POWs and hostages D Tierney Orbis 54 (1), 130-145, 2010 | 12 | 2010 |
| Fighting while negotiating in Afghanistan D Tierney Orbis 57 (1), 171-186, 2013 | 11 | 2013 |
Ryan GrauerAssociate Professor of International Affairs, Graduate School of Public and International AffairsVerified email at pitt.edu
