| Between anarchy and society: trusteeship and the obligations of power W Bain Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 | 412 | 2003 |
| Deconfusing Morgenthau: moral inquiry and classical realism reconsidered W Bain Review of International Studies 26 (3), 445-464, 2000 | 99 | 2000 |
| The political theory of trusteeship and the twilight of international equality W Bain International Relations 17 (1), 59-77, 2003 | 88 | 2003 |
| Political theology of international order W Bain Oxford University Press, 2020 | 83 | 2020 |
| The pluralist–solidarist debate in the English School W Bain Guide to the English school in international studies, 159-169, 2013 | 70 | 2013 |
| In praise of folly: international administration and the corruption of humanity W Bain International affairs 82 (3), 525-538, 2006 | 62 | 2006 |
| The tyranny of benevolence: national security, human security, and the practice of statecraft W Bain Global Society 15 (3), 277-294, 2001 | 56 | 2001 |
| One order, two laws: recovering the ‘normative’in English School theory W Bain Review of International Studies 33 (4), 557-575, 2007 | 48 | 2007 |
| The Empire of Security and the Safety of the People W Bain Routledge, 2006 | 48 | 2006 |
| Responsibility and obligation in the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ W Bain Review of International Studies 36 (S1), 25-46, 2010 | 41 | 2010 |
| Against Crusading: The Ethic of Human Security and Canadian Foreign Policy WW Bain Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 6 (3), 85-98, 1999 | 31 | 1999 |
| Medieval foundations of international relations W Bain Routledge, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| International relations and intellectual history W Bain, T Nardin International relations 31 (3), 213-226, 2017 | 28 | 2017 |
| Are there any lessons of history? The English school and the activity of being an historian W Bain International Politics 44 (5), 513-530, 2007 | 24 | 2007 |
| The English School and the activity of being an historian W Bain Theorising International Society: English School Methods, 148-166, 2009 | 23 | 2009 |
| Thomas Hobbes as a theorist of anarchy: A theological interpretation W Bain History of European ideas 41 (1), 13-28, 2015 | 22 | 2015 |
| Rival traditions of natural law: Martin Wight and the theory of international society W Bain The International History Review 36 (5), 943-960, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
| Saving the innocent, then and now: Vitoria, dominion and world order W Bain History of Political Thought 34 (4), 588-613, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
| The idea of trusteeship in international society W Bain The Round Table 92 (368), 67-76, 2003 | 16 | 2003 |
| Vitoria: The law of war, saving the innocent, and the image of God W Bain Just and unjust military intervention: European thinkers from Vitoria to …, 2013 | 15 | 2013 |
Harvey StarrDag Hammarskjold Professor Emeritus, Political Science, U. of South CarolinaVerified email at mailbox.sc.edu
