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| The conduct of history in International Relations: rethinking philosophy of history in IR theory J MacKay, CD LaRoche International Theory 9 (2), 203-236, 2017 | 42 | 2017 |
| The nomadic other: Ontological security and the Inner Asian steppe in historical East Asian international politics J MacKay Review of International Studies 42 (3), 471-491, 2016 | 38 | 2016 |
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| Why is there no reactionary international theory? J MacKay, CD LaRoche International Studies Quarterly 62 (2), 234-244, 2018 | 31 | 2018 |
| Pirate nations: Maritime pirates as escape societies in late Imperial China J MacKay Social Science History 37 (4), 551-573, 2013 | 24 | 2013 |
| State failure, actor-network theory, and the theorisation of sovereignty J MacKay BSIS Journal of International Studies 3, 59-96, 2006 | 21 | 2006 |
| Communities of practice, impression management, and great power status: Military observers in the Russo-Japanese War K Banerjee, J MacKay European Journal of International Security 5 (3), 274-293, 2020 | 17 | 2020 |
| Rethinking hierarchies in East Asian historical IR J MacKay Journal of Global Security Studies 4 (4), 598-611, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
| Legitimation Strategies in International Hierarchies J MacKay International Studies Quarterly, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
| Rethinking the IR theory of empire in late imperial China J MacKay International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 15 (1), 53-79, 2015 | 12 | 2015 |
| Running dry: international law and the management of Aral Sea depletion J MacKay Central Asian Survey 28 (1), 17-27, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| Theories and Philosophies of History in International Relations J MacKay, CD LaRoche Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations, 16-26, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| A test of the democratic peacekeeping hypothesis: Coups, democracy, and foreign military deployments J Levin, J MacKay, AS Jamison, A Nasirzadeh, A Sealey Journal of Peace Research 58 (3), 355-367, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| A Hegelian realist constructivist account of war, identity, and state formation J MacKay, J Levin Journal of International Relations and Development 21, 75-100, 2018 | 10 | 2018 |
| International politics in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century central Asia: beyond anarchy in international-relations theory J MacKay Central Asian Survey 32 (2), 210-224, 2013 | 9 | 2013 |
| The Counterinsurgent Imagination: A New Intellectual History J MacKay Cambridge University Press, 2023 | 5 | 2023 |
| Kenneth Waltz's approach to reading classic political theory and why it matters J MacKay International Theory 14 (2), 338-357, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
| Butterflies of South West Scotland K Futter, R Sutcliffe, D Welham, A Welham, AJ Rostron, J Mackay, ... Argyll Publishing, 2006 | 5 | 2006 |
