| The sustainability and future of unrecognized quasi-states P Kolstø Journal of peace research 43 (6), 723-740, 2006 | 671 | 2006 |
| Russians in the former Soviet republics P Kolstø, A Edemsky Indiana University Press, 1995 | 526 | 1995 |
| Living with non-recognition: State-and nation-building in South Caucasian quasi-states P Kolstø, H Blakkisrud Europe-Asia Studies 60 (3), 483-509, 2008 | 275 | 2008 |
| Political Construction Sites: nation building in Russia and the post-Soviet states P Kolsto Routledge, 2018 | 272 | 2018 |
| The new Russian nationalism P Kolstø, H Blakkisrud Edinburgh University Press, 2016 | 182 | 2016 |
| From secessionist conflict toward a functioning state: processes of state-and nation-building in Transnistria H Blakkisrud, P Kolstø Post-Soviet Affairs 27 (2), 178-210, 2011 | 180 | 2011 |
| The Dniester conflict: between irredentism and separatism P Kolstø, A Edemsky, N Kalashnikova Europe-Asia Studies 45 (6), 973-1000, 1993 | 152 | 1993 |
| The new Russian diaspora‐an identity of its own? Possible identity trajectories for Russians in the former Soviet republic P Kolstø Ethnic and Racial Studies 19 (3), 609-639, 1996 | 150 | 1996 |
| The Transnistrian republic: A case of politicized regionalism P Kolstø, A Malgin Nationalities Papers 26 (1), 103-127, 1998 | 149 | 1998 |
| Anticipating demographic superiority: Kazakh thinking on integration and nation building P Kolstø Europe-Asia Studies 50 (1), 51-69, 1998 | 134 | 1998 |
| Myths and boundaries in south-eastern Europe P Kolstø (No Title), 2005 | 127 | 2005 |
| Dynamics of de facto statehood: the South Caucasian de facto states between secession and sovereignty H Blakkisrud, P Kolstø Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 12 (2), 281-298, 2012 | 126 | 2012 |
| National integration and violent conflict in post-Soviet societies: the cases of Estonia and Moldova P Kolstø Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 | 122 | 2002 |
| Territorialising diasporas: the case of Russians in the former Soviet Republics P Kolstø Millennium 28 (3), 607-631, 1999 | 107 | 1999 |
| Media discourse and the Yugoslav conflicts: Representations of self and other P Kolstø Routledge, 2016 | 103 | 2016 |
| De facto states and democracy: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh P Kolstø, H Blakkisrud Communist and Post-Communist Studies 45 (1-2), 141-151, 2012 | 93 | 2012 |
| Strategies of symbolic nation-building in South Eastern Europe P Kolstø Routledge, 2016 | 90 | 2016 |
| The ethnification of Russian nationalism P Kolstø The New Russian nationalism: Imperialism, ethnicity and authoritarianism …, 2016 | 87 | 2016 |
| Somaliland: Dynamics of internal legitimacy and (lack of) external sovereignty S Pegg, P Kolstø Geoforum 66, 193-202, 2015 | 87 | 2015 |
| Nation-building and ethnic integration in post-Soviet societies: an investigation of Latvia and Kazakstan P Kolstø (No Title), 1999 | 78 | 1999 |
