| War without winners: Afghanistan's Uncertain Transition after the Cold war RB Rais (No Title), 1994 | 115 | 1994 |
| Recovering the Frontier State: War, Ethnicity and State in Afghanistan RB Rais Lexington Books, 2008 | 99 | 2008 |
| The Indian Ocean and the superpowers: Economic, political, and strategic perspectives RB Rais Rowman & Littlefield, 1987 | 83 | 1987 |
| Identity politics and minorities in Pakistan RB Rais South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 30 (1), 111-125, 2007 | 68 | 2007 |
| Measuring political violence in Pakistan: Insights from the BFRS Dataset E Bueno de Mesquita, CC Fair, J Jordan, RB Rais, JN Shapiro Conflict Management and Peace Science 32 (5), 536-558, 2015 | 59 | 2015 |
| Afghanistan and the regional powers RB Rais Asian Survey 33 (9), 905-922, 1993 | 55 | 1993 |
| Pakistan in 1988: From command to conciliation politics RB Rais Asian Survey 29 (2), 199-206, 1989 | 48 | 1989 |
| Islamic radicalism and minorities in Pakistan RB Rais Religious radicalism and security in South Asia 19, 447-65, 2005 | 39 | 2005 |
| Conflict in Afghanistan: Ethnicity, religion and neighbours RB Rais Ethnic Studies Report 17 (1), 1-19, 1999 | 38 | 1999 |
| Elections in Pakistan: Is Democracy Winning? RB Rais Asian Affairs: An American Review 12 (3), 43-61, 1985 | 37 | 1985 |
| Conceptualizing Nuclear Deterrence: Pakistan's Posture RB Rais The India-Pakistan Nuclear Relationship, 51-82, 2020 | 35 | 2020 |
| Pakistan in the regional and global power structure RB Rais Asian Survey 31 (4), 378-392, 1991 | 35 | 1991 |
| State, Society, and Democratic Change in Pakistan RB Rais (No Title), 1997 | 32 | 1997 |
| Imagining Pakistan: Modernism, state, and the politics of Islamic revival RB Rais Lexington Books, 2017 | 30 | 2017 |
| China and Pakistan: A Political Analysis of Mutual Relations RB Rais (No Title), 1977 | 26 | 1977 |
| Islam, ethnicity, and power politics: constructing Pakistan's national identity RB Rais Oxford University Press, 2017 | 24 | 2017 |
| Interpreting ethnic movements in Pakistan [with Comments] C Jaffrelot, RB Rais The Pakistan Development Review, 153-179, 1998 | 19 | 1998 |
| An appraisal of US strategy in the Indian Ocean RB Rais Asian Survey 23 (9), 1043-1051, 1983 | 18 | 1983 |
| Geopolitics on the Pakistan–Afghanistan borderland: An overview of different historical phases RB Rais Geopolitics 24 (2), 284-307, 2019 | 17 | 2019 |
| Pakistan's Nuclear Program: Prospects for Proliferation RB Rais Asian Survey 25 (4), 458-472, 1985 | 16 | 1985 |