| Japan's international relations: politics, economics and security GD Hook, J Gilson, CW Hughes, H Dobson Routledge, 2011 | 781 | 2011 |
| Japan's re-emergence as a'normal'military power C Hughes Routledge, 2013 | 484 | 2013 |
| New regionalism in the global political economy: Theories and cases S Breslin, CW Hughes, N Phillips, B Rosamond Routledge, 2002 | 353* | 2002 |
| Japan's remilitarisation CW Hughes Routledge, 2017 | 286 | 2017 |
| Japan’s foreign and security policy under the ‘Abe Doctrine’: New dynamism or new dead end? C Hughes Springer, 2015 | 277 | 2015 |
| Japan's response to China's rise: regional engagement, global containment, dangers of collision CW Hughes International Affairs 85 (4), 837-856, 2009 | 206 | 2009 |
| Japan’s ‘resentful realism’and balancing China’s rise CW Hughes The Chinese Journal of International Politics 9 (2), 109-150, 2016 | 183 | 2016 |
| Japan's economic power and security: Japan and North Korea CW Hughes Routledge, 2013 | 156 | 2013 |
| " Super-Sizing" the DPRK Threat: Japan's Evolving Military Posture and North Korea CW Hughes Asian Survey 49 (2), 291-311, 2009 | 147 | 2009 |
| Japan's security agenda: military, economic, and environmental dimensions CW Hughes Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004 | 147 | 2004 |
| Globalization, political violence and translation: An introduction E Bielsa Globalization, political violence and translation, 1-21, 2009 | 136 | 2009 |
| Japanese policy and the East Asian currency crisis: abject defeat or quiet victory? CW Hughes Review of international political economy 7 (2), 219-253, 2000 | 127 | 2000 |
| Regionalisation and global governance CW Hughes, P De Lombaerde Routledge, 2008 | 124* | 2008 |
| Japan’s Strategic Trajectory and Collective Self-Defense: Essential Continuity or Radical Shift? CW Hughes The Journal of Japanese Studies 43 (1), 93-126, 2017 | 111 | 2017 |
| Japan's new security agenda CW Hughes, ES Krauss Survival 49.2, 157-176, 2023 | 109 | 2023 |
| North Korea’s nuclear weapons: implications for the nuclear ambitions of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan CW Hughes asia policy, 75-104, 2007 | 107 | 2007 |
| The Democratic Party of Japan’s new (but failing) grand security strategy: from “reluctant realism” to “resentful realism”? CW Hughes The Journal of Japanese Studies 38 (1), 109-140, 2012 | 97 | 2012 |
| Security studies: a reader CW Hughes, YM Lai Routledge, 2011 | 92 | 2011 |
| The North Korean nuclear crisis and Japanese security CW Hughes Survival 38 (2), 79-103, 1996 | 77 | 1996 |
| Japan-US security relations: toward “bilateralism-plus”? CW Hughes, A Fukushima Stanford University Press, 2003 | 76 | 2003 |