| The symbolic politics of sport mega-events: 2010 in comparative perspective D Black Politikon 34 (3), 261-276, 2007 | 307 | 2007 |
| The allure of global games for'semi-peripheral'polities and spaces: a research agenda D Black, J Van Der Westhuizen Third world quarterly 25 (7), 1195-1214, 2004 | 303 | 2004 |
| The ambiguities of development: Implications for ‘development through sport' DR Black Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008, 121-129, 2013 | 252 | 2013 |
| Rugby and the South African nation: sport, cultures, politics, and power in the old and new South Africas DR Black, J Nauright Manchester University Press, 1998 | 210 | 1998 |
| Dreaming big: The pursuit of ‘second order’games as a strategic response to globalization D Black Sport in Society 11 (4), 467-480, 2008 | 194 | 2008 |
| The Olympic Games, human rights and democratisation: Lessons from Seoul and implications for Beijing D Black, S Bezanson Third World Quarterly 25 (7), 1245-1261, 2004 | 149 | 2004 |
| A decade of human security: Global governance and new multilateralisms DR Black Routledge, 2016 | 136 | 2016 |
| Mainstreaming sport into international development studies SC Darnell, DR Black Third world quarterly 32 (3), 367-378, 2011 | 129 | 2011 |
| The long and winding road: international norms and domestic political change in South Africa D Black Cambridge Studies in International Relations 66, 78-108, 1999 | 122 | 1999 |
| Sport and Canadian diplomacy D Macintosh, MK Hawes, DR Greenhorn, DR Black McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 1994 | 97 | 1994 |
| Sport and diplomacy D Black, B Peacock | 63 | 2013 |
| Notable exceptions? New and arrested directions in Canadian foreign policy literature DR Black, HA Smith Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique …, 1993 | 59 | 1993 |
| Catching up: Understanding the pursuit of major games by rising developmental states D Black, B Peacock The Triple Asian Olympics-Asia Rising, 65-83, 2018 | 53 | 2018 |
| The challenges of articulating ‘top down’and ‘bottom up’development through sport DR Black Innovations in'Sport for Development and Peace'Research, 7-22, 2020 | 51 | 2020 |
| Megas for strivers: The politics of second-order events D Black Leveraging legacies from sports mega-events: Concepts and cases, 13-23, 2014 | 49 | 2014 |
| Addressing apartheid: Lessons from Australian, Canadian and Swedish policies in southern Africa DR Black Niche diplomacy: Middle powers after the Cold War, 100-128, 1997 | 47 | 1997 |
| The Canadian international development agency: New policies, old problems DR Black, R Tiessen Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du …, 2007 | 46 | 2007 |
| Mapping the interplay of human security practice and debates: The Canadian experience DR Black A decade of human security, 53-62, 2016 | 43 | 2016 |
| The International Politics of Mass Atrocities D Black, P Williams The Case of Darfur, London, 2010 | 41 | 2010 |
| Sustaining masculine hegemony: rugby and the nostalgia of masculinity. J Nauright | 40 | 1996 |
