| Latin America's cold war H Brands Harvard University Press, 2010 | 682 | 2010 |
| What good is grand strategy?: Power and purpose in American statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush H Brands Cornell University Press, 2014 | 420* | 2014 |
| American grand strategy in the age of Trump H Brands Brookings Institution Press, 2018 | 221* | 2018 |
| Making the unipolar moment: US Foreign policy and the rise of the post-Cold War order H Brands Making the Unipolar Moment, 2016 | 206 | 2016 |
| Paradoxes of the Gray Zone H Brands Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2016 | 151 | 2016 |
| Dilemmas of Brazilian grand strategy H Brands Strategic Studies Institute, 2010 | 139 | 2010 |
| Mexico's narco-insurgency and US counterdrug policy H Brands | 132 | 2009 |
| COVID-19 and world order: The future of conflict, competition, and cooperation H Brands, FJ Gavin JHU Press, 2020 | 112* | 2020 |
| The new cold war: America, China, and the echoes of history H Brands, JL Gaddis Foreign Aff. 100, 10, 2021 | 109 | 2021 |
| From Berlin to Baghdad: America's search for purpose in the post-Cold War world H Brands University Press of Kentucky, 2008 | 102 | 2008 |
| Saddam, Israel, and the Bomb: Nuclear Alarmism Justified? H Brands, D Palkki International Security 36 (1), 133-166, 2011 | 92* | 2011 |
| Barack Obama and the dilemmas of American grand strategy H Brands The Washington Quarterly 39 (4), 101-125, 2016 | 83* | 2016 |
| Democracy vs authoritarianism: How ideology shapes great-power conflict H Brands Survival 60 (5), 61-114, 2018 | 80 | 2018 |
| Crime, Violence, and the Crisis in Guatemala:. H Brands Strategic Studies Institute, 2010 | 79* | 2010 |
| The Promise and Pitfalls of Grand Strategy H Brands ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA, 2012 | 78* | 2012 |
| Crime, irregular warfare, and institutional failure in Latin America: Guatemala as a case study H Brands Studies in conflict & terrorism 34 (3), 228-247, 2011 | 75 | 2011 |
| China Has Two Paths to Global Domination H Brands, J Sullivan Foreign Policy, 2020 | 74* | 2020 |
| Non-proliferation and the Dynamics of the Middle Cold War: The Superpowers, the MLF, and the NPT H Brands Cold War History 7 (3), 389-423, 2007 | 70 | 2007 |
| US grand strategy in an age of nationalism: Fortress America and its alternatives H Brands The Washington Quarterly 40 (1), 73-94, 2017 | 69 | 2017 |
| Trump's Grand Strategic Train Wreck H Brands, C Kahl Foreign Policy, 2017 | 66* | 2017 |
