| Theory of the global state: Globality as an unfinished revolution M Shaw Cambridge University Press, 2000 | 960 | 2000 |
| The new Western way of war: Risk-transfer war and its crisis in Iraq M Shaw Polity, 2005 | 781 | 2005 |
| What is genocide? M Shaw John Wiley & Sons, 2015 | 593 | 2015 |
| Global society and international relations: Sociological concepts and political perspectives M Shaw Polity Press, 1994 | 556 | 1994 |
| War and genocide: Organised killing in modern society M Shaw John Wiley & Sons, 2015 | 547 | 2015 |
| Post-military society: Militarism, demilitarization, and war at the end of the twentieth century M Shaw (No Title), 1991 | 547 | 1991 |
| Civil society and media in global crises: Representing distant violence M Shaw Burns & Oates, 1996 | 454 | 1996 |
| The state of globalization: towards a theory of state transformation M Shaw Review of international political economy 4 (3), 497-513, 1997 | 298 | 1997 |
| Civil society and global politics: Beyond a social movements approach M Shaw Millennium 23 (3), 647-667, 1994 | 254 | 1994 |
| Global activism, global media W Jong, M Shaw, N Stammers (No Title), 2005 | 221 | 2005 |
| Dialectics of war: an essay in the social theory of total war and peace M Shaw Available at SSRN 2718985, 1988 | 168 | 1988 |
| Risk-transfer militarism, small massacres and the historic legitimacy of war M Shaw International Relations 16 (3), 343-359, 2002 | 164 | 2002 |
| Global society and global responsibility: the theoretical, historical and political limits of'international society' M Shaw Millennium 21 (3), 421-434, 1992 | 164 | 1992 |
| New Wars of the City:‘urbicide’and ‘genocide’ M Shaw Cities, war, and terrorism: Towards an urban geopolitics, 141-53, 2004 | 131 | 2004 |
| Marxism and social science: the roots of social knowledge M Shaw (No Title), 1975 | 116 | 1975 |
| War, state and society J Cock, R Olive Springer, 1984 | 105 | 1984 |
| Post-imperial and quasi-imperial: state and empire in the global era M Shaw Millennium 31 (2), 327-336, 2002 | 103 | 2002 |
| Twenty-first century militarism: A historical-sociological framework M Shaw Militarism and international relations, 19-32, 2012 | 82 | 2012 |
| The contemporary mode of warfare? Mary Kaldor's theory of New Wars M Shaw Review of International Political Economy 7 (1), 171-180, 2000 | 82 | 2000 |
| There is no such thing as society: beyond individualism and statism in international security studies M Shaw Review of International Studies 19 (2), 159-175, 1993 | 81 | 1993 |
