| Civil Society and the Authoritarian State: Cooperation, Contestation and Discourse D Lewis Journal of Civil Society 9 (3), 325-340, 2013 | 205 | 2013 |
| Illiberal Peace? Authoritarian modes of conflict management DG Lewis, J Heathershaw, N Megoran Cooperation and Conflict, 2018 | 178 | 2018 |
| The temptations of tyranny in Central Asia D Lewis Columbia University Press, 2008 | 151 | 2008 |
| Russia's New Authoritarianism: Putin and the Politics of Order DG Lewis | 104 | 2020 |
| Russia's New Authoritarianism: Putin and the Politics of Order DG Lewis Edinburgh University Press, 2020 | 104 | 2020 |
| Geopolitical imaginaries in Russian foreign policy: The evolution of ‘Greater Eurasia’ DG Lewis The European Union, Russia and the Post-Soviet Space, 70-95, 2022 | 102 | 2022 |
| Who’s Socialising Whom? Regional Organisations and Contested Norms in Central Asia D Lewis Europe-Asia Studies 64 (7), 1219-1237, 2012 | 83 | 2012 |
| Authoritarian Powers and Norm Contestation in the Liberal International Order: Theorizing the Power Politics of Ideas and Identity G Bettiza, D Lewis Journal of Global Security Studies, 2019 | 80 | 2019 |
| Blogging Zhanaozen: hegemonic discourse and authoritarian resilience in Kazakhstan D Lewis Central Asian Survey 35 (3), 421-438, 2016 | 79 | 2016 |
| The failure of a liberal peace: Sri Lanka's counter-insurgency in global perspective D Lewis Conflict, Security & Development 10 (5), 647-671, 2010 | 75 | 2010 |
| The dynamics of regime change: domestic and international factors in the ‘Tulip Revolution’ D Lewis Central Asian Survey 27 (3-4), 265-277, 2008 | 67* | 2008 |
| “Illiberal Spaces:” Uzbekistan's extraterritorial security practices and the spatial politics of contemporary authoritarianism D Lewis Nationalities Papers 43 (1), 140-159, 2015 | 66 | 2015 |
| The myopic Foucauldian gaze: discourse, knowledge and the authoritarian peace D Lewis Knowledge and Expertise in International Interventions, 118-140, 2018 | 60 | 2018 |
| Understanding the authoritarian state: Neopatrimonialism in Central Asia D Lewis The Brown Journal of World Affairs 19 (1), 115-126, 2012 | 54 | 2012 |
| High times on the Silk Road: the Central Asian paradox D Lewis World Policy Journal 27 (1), 39-49, 2010 | 48 | 2010 |
| Contesting liberal peace: Russia's emerging model of conflict management D Lewis International Affairs 98 (2), 653-673, 2022 | 39 | 2022 |
| Reassessing the role of OSCE police assistance programing in Central Asia D Lewis Open Society Foundations, 2011 | 35 | 2011 |
| Interrogating illiberal peace in Eurasia: Critical perspectives on peace and conflict C Owen, S Juraev, D Lewis, N Megoran, J Heathershaw Rowman & Littlefield, 2018 | 32 | 2018 |
| Interrogating Illiberal Peace in Eurasia C Owen, S Juraev, D Lewis, J Heathershaw New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017 | 32* | 2017 |
| Crime, terror and the state in Central Asia D Lewis Global Crime 15 (3-4), 337-356, 2014 | 32 | 2014 |
