| The three US-Mexico border wars: Drugs, immigration, and homeland security T Payan Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2016 | 388 | 2016 |
| Human Rights along the US–Mexico Border: Gendered Violence and Insecurity K Staudt, T Payan, ZA Kruszewski University of Arizona Press, 2022 | 58 | 2022 |
| A war that can’t be won: Binational perspectives on the war on drugs T Payan, K Staudt, ZA Kruszewski University of Arizona Press, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| Cops, soldiers, and diplomats: explaining agency behavior in the war on drugs T Payan Lexington Books, 2006 | 43 | 2006 |
| The Drug War and the US-Mexico Border: The State of Affairs T Payan South Atlantic Quarterly 105 (4), 863-880, 2006 | 42 | 2006 |
| Theory-building in border studies: the view from North America T Payan Eurasia Border Review 5 (1), 1-18, 2014 | 38 | 2014 |
| Ciudad Juárez: la tormenta perfecta T Payan Migración y seguridad: Nuevo desafío en México, 127-143, 2011 | 24 | 2011 |
| The Three US-Mexico Border Wars: Drugs, Immigration and Homeland Secudity T Payan Immigration, and Homeland 1, 165, 2006 | 23 | 2006 |
| Ciudad Juarez: A perfect storm on the US–Mexico Border T Payan Journal of Borderlands Studies 29 (4), 435-447, 2014 | 21 | 2014 |
| The Costs of Homeland Security T Payan, A Vasquez Borderlands: Comparing Border Security in North America and Europe 1, 231-258, 2007 | 14 | 2007 |
| Crossborder governance in a tristate, binational region T Payan Cities and citizenship at the US-Mexico border: The Paso del Norte …, 2010 | 12 | 2010 |
| Land Ownership and Use Under Mexico’s Energy Reform T Payan, G Correa-Cabrera James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, 2014 | 11 | 2014 |
| Introduction: The Many Labyrinths of Illegal Drug Policy: Framing the Issues T Payan A war that can’t be won: Binational perspectives on the war on drugs, 3-30, 2013 | 10 | 2013 |
| Transnational advocacy networks, international norms, and political change in Mexico: The murdered women of Ciudad Juárez O Aikin Araluce, K Staudt, T Payan, Z Anthony Kruszewski Human rights along the US-Mexico Women at the US-Mexico Border 59, 2009 | 10 | 2009 |
| Binational commons: Institutional development and governance on the US-Mexico Border T Payan, PL Cruz University of Arizona Press, 2020 | 9 | 2020 |
| Energy Reform and Security in Northeastern Mexico T Payan, G Correa-Cabrera James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, 2014 | 9 | 2014 |
| Undecided nation: political gridlock and the immigration crisis T Payan, E De la Garza Springer, 2014 | 8 | 2014 |
| La guerra improvisada: Los años de Calderón y sus consecuencias T Payan, G Correa-Cabrera Océano, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| Organized crime as the highest threat to Mexican national security and democracy RB Manaut, T Payan, K Staudt, Z Anthony Kruszewski A war that can’t be won. Binational perspectives on the war on drugs, 149-173, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| Bordering human rights, social democratic feminism, and broad-based security K Staudt, T Payan, T Dunn Human rights along the US-Mexico border: Gendered violence and insecurity …, 2009 | 7 | 2009 |
