| State, secession, and Jihad: the micropolitical economy of conflict in northern Mali L Raineri, F Strazzari African Security 8 (4), 249-271, 2015 | 95 | 2015 |
| Human smuggling across Niger: state-sponsored protection rackets and contradictory security imperatives L Raineri The Journal of Modern African Studies 56 (1), 63-86, 2018 | 73 | 2018 |
| The implementation of EU Crisis Response in Libya: Bridging theory and practice C Loschi, L Raineri, F Strazzari EUNPACK Working Papper. Deliverable 6, 2018 | 52 | 2018 |
| The security-migration-development nexus in the Sahel: A reality check L Raineri, A Rossi IAI Working Papers 17, 2017 | 39 | 2017 |
| Explaining the rise of Jihadism in Africa: the crucial case of the Islamic State of the Greater Sahara L Raineri Terrorism and Political Violence 34 (8), 1632-1646, 2022 | 38 | 2022 |
| (B) ordering Hybrid Security? EU Stabilisation Practices in the Sahara-Sahel Region L Raineri, F Strazzari Ethnopolitics 18 (5), 544-559, 2019 | 38 | 2019 |
| Fringe Regionalism: When Peripheries Become Regions F Mattheis, L Raineri, A Russo Springer, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
| If Victims Become Perpetrators: Factors Contributing to Vulnerability and Resilience to Violent Extremism in the Central Sahel L Raineri International Alert, 2018 | 32 | 2018 |
| ISIS and Al-Qaeda as Strategies and Political Imaginaries in Africa: A Comparison between Boko Haram and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb L Raineri, A Martini Civil Wars 19 (4), 425-447, 2017 | 30 | 2017 |
| How the EU is facing crises in its neighbourhood: Evidence from Libya and Ukraine K Ivashchenko-Stadnik, R Petrov, L Raineri, P Rieker, A Russo, ... EUNPACK Deliverable 6, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| SAHEL CLIMATE CONFLICTS?: When (fighting) climate change fuels terrorism L Raineri European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), 2020 | 21* | 2020 |
| Dissecting the EU response to the'migration crisis' L Raineri, F Strazzari The EU and crisis response, 201-226, 2021 | 19 | 2021 |
| Jihadism in Mali and the Sahel: Evolving dynamics and patterns L Raineri, F Strazzari Paris: EUISS, Brief 21, 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
| Drug Smuggling and the Stability of Fragile States. The Diverging Trajectories of Mali and Niger L Raineri, F Strazzari Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 16 (2), 222-239, 2022 | 18 | 2022 |
| Cross-border smuggling in north Niger: The morality of the informal and the construction of a hybrid order L Raineri Governance Beyond the Law: The Immoral, The Illegal, The Criminal, 227-245, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
| Security and informality in Libya: militarisation without military? L Raineri Conflict, Security & Development 19 (6), 583-602, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
| Gold Mining in the Sahara-Sahel: The Political Geography of State-making and Unmaking L Raineri The International Spectator 55 (4), 100-117, 2020 | 13 | 2020 |
| Azawad: A Parastate Between Nomads and Mujahidins? E Baldaro, L Raineri Nationalities Papers 48 (1), 100-115, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
| Resilience to What? EU Capacity-Building Missions in the Sahel L Raineri, E Baldaro Projecting Resilience Across the Mediterranean, 169-187, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
| The bioeconomy of Sahel borders: Informal practices of revenue and data extraction L Raineri Geopolitics 27 (5), 1470-1491, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
