| Useful fiction or miracle maker: The competing epistemological foundations of rational choice theory PK MacDonald American political science review 97 (4), 551-565, 2003 | 267 | 2003 |
| Graceful decline? The surprising success of great power retrenchment PK MacDonald, JM Parent International Security 35 (4), 7-44, 2011 | 251 | 2011 |
| The wisdom of retrenchment-America must cut back to move forward JM Parent, PK MacDonald Foreign Aff. 90, 32, 2011 | 105 | 2011 |
| Twilight of the titans: Great power decline and retrenchment PK MacDonald, JM Parent Cornell University Press, 2018 | 88 | 2018 |
| Networks of domination: The social foundations of peripheral conquest in international politics PK MacDonald Oxford University Press, USA, 2014 | 88 | 2014 |
| America first? Explaining continuity and change in Trump’s foreign policy PK MacDonald Political Science Quarterly 133 (3), 401-434, 2018 | 85 | 2018 |
| Repertoires of statecraft: Instruments and logics of power politics SE Goddard, PK MacDonald, DH Nexon International Relations 33 (2), 304-321, 2019 | 74 | 2019 |
| Those who forget historiography are doomed to republish it: empire, imperialism and contemporary debates about American power PK MacDonald Review of International Studies 35 (1), 45-67, 2009 | 72 | 2009 |
| Embedded authority: A relational network approach to hierarchy in world politics PK MacDonald Review of International Studies 44 (1), 128-150, 2018 | 64 | 2018 |
| The status of status in world politics PK MacDonald, JM Parent World Politics 73 (2), 358-391, 2021 | 60 | 2021 |
| The role of hierarchy in international politics PK MacDonald, DA Lake International Security 32 (4), 171-180, 2008 | 42 | 2008 |
| “Retribution must succeed rebellion”: The colonial origins of counterinsurgency failure PK MacDonald International Organization 67 (2), 253-286, 2013 | 41 | 2013 |
| Start the evolution without us DSA Bell, PK MacDonald, BA Thayer International Security, 187-198, 2001 | 32 | 2001 |
| Parent. 2018 PK MacDonald, M Joseph Twilight of the Titans: Great Power Decline and Retrenchment, 0 | 26 | |
| Is Imperial Rule Obsolete?: Assessing the Barriers to Overseas Adventurism PK MacDonald Security Studies 18 (1), 79-114, 2009 | 18 | 2009 |
| Parent. 2018. Twilight of the titans: Great power decline and retrenchment PK MacDonald, M Joseph Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 0 | 18 | |
| Trump didn’t shrink US military commitments abroad–he expanded them PK MacDonald, JM Parent Foreign Affairs 3, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
| The Road to Recovery: How Once Great Powers Became Great Again PK MacDonald, JM Parent The Washington Quarterly 41 (3), 21-39, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| Decline and Retrenchment—Peril or Promise? K Haynes, WR Thompson, PK MacDonald, JM Parent International Security 36 (4), 189-203, 2012 | 9 | 2012 |
| Rebalancing American foreign policy PK MacDonald Daedalus 138 (2), 115-125, 2009 | 6 | 2009 |
