| The people’s republic of China leadership transition and its external relations: Still searching for definitive answers JMF Blanchard Journal of Chinese Political Science 20, 1-16, 2015 | 4055 | 2015 |
| The geopolitics of China’s maritime silk road initiative JMF Blanchard, C Flint Geopolitics 22 (2), 223-245, 2017 | 462 | 2017 |
| Asking the right question: When do economic sanctions work best? JMF Blanchard, NM Ripsman Security Studies 9 (1-2), 219-253, 1999 | 170 | 1999 |
| Commercial liberalism under fire: Evidence from 1914 and 1936 NM Ripsman, JMF Blanchard Security Studies 6 (2), 4-50, 1996 | 151 | 1996 |
| Thinking hard about soft power: A review and critique of the literature on China and soft power JMF Blanchard, F Lu Asian perspective, 565-589, 2012 | 142 | 2012 |
| The US role in the Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands, 1945–1971 JMF Blanchard The China Quarterly 161, 95-123, 2000 | 132 | 2000 |
| Probing China’s twenty-first-century maritime silk road initiative (MSRI): an examination of MSRI narratives JMF Blanchard Geopolitics 22 (2), 246-268, 2017 | 128 | 2017 |
| A political theory of economic statecraft JMF Blanchard, NM Ripsman Foreign Policy Analysis 4 (4), 371-398, 2008 | 124 | 2008 |
| Economic statecraft and foreign policy: Sanctions, incentives, and target state calculations JMF Blanchard, NM Ripsman Routledge, 2013 | 115 | 2013 |
| Power and the purse: Economic statecraft, interdependence and national security JMF Blanchard, ED Mansfield, NM Ripsman Routledge, 2014 | 90 | 2014 |
| China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) and Southeast Asia: A Chinese ‘pond’not ‘lake’in the works JMF Blanchard Journal of Contemporary China 27 (111), 329-343, 2018 | 82 | 2018 |
| " Harmonious world" and China's new foreign policy S Guo, JMF Blanchard Lexington books, 2008 | 80 | 2008 |
| The political economy of national security: Economic statecraft, interdependence, and international conflict JMF Blanchard, ED Mansfield, NM Ripsman Security Studies 9 (1-2), 1-14, 1999 | 73 | 1999 |
| China's maritime silk road initiative and South Asia JMF Blanchard, F Blanchard, Dreyer Palgrave, 2017 | 60 | 2017 |
| Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) blues: Powering BRI research back on track to avoid choppy seas JMF Blanchard Journal of Chinese Political Science 26, 235-255, 2021 | 57 | 2021 |
| Linking border disputes and war: An institutional-statist theory JMF Blanchard Geopolitics 10 (4), 688-711, 2005 | 55 | 2005 |
| China’s Grand Strategy and money muscle: the potentialities and pratfalls of China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and Renminbi policies JMF Blanchard The Chinese Journal of International Politics 4 (1), 31-53, 2011 | 42 | 2011 |
| Measuring economic interdependence: A geopolitical perspective JMF Blanchard, NM Ripsman Geopolitics and international boundaries 1 (3), 225-246, 1996 | 42 | 1996 |
| Chinese MNCs as China’s new long march: a review and critique of the western literature JMF Blanchard Journal of Chinese Political Science 16, 91-108, 2011 | 35 | 2011 |
| Harmonious world and China’s foreign economic policy: features, implications, and challenges JMF Blanchard Journal of Chinese Political Science 13, 165-192, 2008 | 35 | 2008 |
