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* Violations of the Laws of War (1982)
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* Violence in America: The History of Crime (1989)
* Fascism and the Politics of Violence: Italy 1922–1945 (1990)
* The Conditions of Civil Violence: Third World Politics and Third-World War (1993)
* Understanding Minorities: Social Processes and Political Behavior (1993)
* Peace & War in the Modern Age: A Comparative View of Conflict and Conflict Management (1996)
* Terrorism: A Historical and Political Analysis (1996)
* Paradigms Lost: The Errors of Marxism and Post-Communism (2000)
* The Use and Misuse of Political Science: A Critique (2001)
* The New Institutionalism and Comparative Politics (2002)
* Unconventional War: Why and How (2004)
* The Encylopedia of Political Violence and Terrorism (2008)
* Why States Persist: The Historical and Comparative Study of State Survival (2008)
* The Oxford Handbook of Political Violence (2012)
* Democracy and the Rule of Law: Towards a Comparative Institutional Theory of Democracy (2012)
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* The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics (2015)
* Global Conflict: The Political Economy of Warfare and Governance (2016)