| The Ambition to Rule: Alcibiades and the Politics of Imperialism S Forde Cornell University Press, 2019 | 242 | 2019 |
| International realism and the science of politics: Thucydides, Machiavelli, and neorealism S Forde International Studies Quarterly 39 (2), 141-160, 1995 | 223 | 1995 |
| Varieties of realism: Thucydides and Machiavelli S Forde The Journal of Politics 54 (2), 372-393, 1992 | 162 | 1992 |
| Classical realism S Forde Traditions of international ethics 17, 62, 1992 | 129 | 1992 |
| Natural law, theology, and morality in Locke S Forde American Journal of Political Science, 396-409, 2001 | 103 | 2001 |
| Hugo Grotius on ethics and war S Forde American Political Science Review 92 (3), 639-648, 1998 | 89 | 1998 |
| Thucydides on the causes of Athenian imperialism S Forde American Political Science Review 80 (2), 433-448, 1986 | 85 | 1986 |
| Gender and justice in Plato S Forde American Political Science Review 91 (3), 657-670, 1997 | 45 | 1997 |
| Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and the education of America S Forde American Political Science Review 86 (2), 357-368, 1992 | 40 | 1992 |
| On the Alcibiades I S Forde The Roots of Political Philosophy, 222-39, 1987 | 39 | 1987 |
| Locke, science and politics S Forde Cambridge University Press, 2013 | 38 | 2013 |
| The Charitable John Locke S Forde The Review of Politics 71 (3), 428-458, 2009 | 38 | 2009 |
| History of American political thought BP Frost, J Sikkenga Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 | 34 | 2003 |
| “Mixed Modes” in John Locke's Moral and Political Philosophy S Forde The Review of Politics 73 (4), 581-608, 2011 | 24 | 2011 |
| Thucydides on ripeness and conflict resolution S Forde International Studies Quarterly 48 (1), 177-195, 2004 | 24 | 2004 |
| What does Locke expect us to know? S Forde The Review of Politics 68 (2), 232-258, 2006 | 23 | 2006 |
| Thucydides and “realism” among the classics of international relations S Forde Thucydides and the modern world: reception, reinterpretation and influence …, 2012 | 19 | 2012 |
| Honor in the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives A Cunningham, A Etzioni, S Forde, SE French, M Griffith, V Hettinger, ... Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 | 17 | 2016 |
| Power and Morality in Thucydides S Forde Thucydides’ Theory of International Relations, 151-73, 2000 | 15 | 2000 |
| John Locke and the natural law and natural rights tradition S Forde Natural Law, Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism, ed. Witherspoon …, 2011 | 13 | 2011 |
