| Organized crime and conflict in the Sahel-Sahara region W Lacher Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2012 | 334 | 2012 |
| One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: a multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali B Lecocq, G Mann, B Whitehouse, D Badi, L Pelckmans, N Belalimat, ... Review of African Political Economy 40 (137), 343-357, 2013 | 235 | 2013 |
| Families, tribes and cities in the Libyan revolution W Lacher Middle East Policy 18 (4), 140-154, 2011 | 169 | 2011 |
| Libya's fragmentation: Structure and process in violent conflict W Lacher Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020 | 135 | 2020 |
| A paradox of plenty? Rent distribution and political stability in oil states M Basedau, W Lacher GIGA working paper, 2006 | 95 | 2006 |
| Fault lines of the revolution: political actors, camps and conflicts in the new Libya W Lacher SWP Research Paper, 2013 | 79 | 2013 |
| South Sudan: International state-building and its limits W Lacher SWP Research Paper, 2012 | 78 | 2012 |
| The security of energy infrastructure and supply in North Africa: Hydrocarbons and renewable energies in comparative perspective W Lacher, D Kumetat Energy policy 39 (8), 4466-4478, 2011 | 76 | 2011 |
| Libya’s local elites and the politics of alliance building W Lacher Dynamics of Transformation, Elite Change and New Social Mobilization, 64-85, 2018 | 62 | 2018 |
| Challenging the myth of the drug-terror nexus in the Sahel W Lacher Center on International Cooperation, 2013 | 61 | 2013 |
| Capital of militias: Tripoli’s armed groups capture the Libyan State W Lacher Small Arms Survey, 2018 | 59 | 2018 |
| Politics by Other Means-Conflicting Interests in Libya's Security Sector W Lacher, P Cole < bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization: Small …, 2014 | 55 | 2014 |
| Iraq: exception to, or epitome of contemporary post-conflict reconstruction? W Lacher International Peacekeeping 14 (2), 237-250, 2007 | 41 | 2007 |
| The rise of tribal politics W Lacher The 2011 Libyan Uprisings and the Struggle for the Post-Qadhafi Future, 151-173, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
| Mission impossible? UN mediation in Libya, Syria and Yemen M Asseburg, W Lacher, M Transfeld DEU 8, 60, 2018 | 35 | 2018 |
| Libya’s fractious South and regional instability W Lacher Small Arms Survey Dispatch, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |
| The Malian crisis and the challenge of regional cooperation W Lacher Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 2 (2), 18-18, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
| Mali: beyond counterterrorism W Lacher, DM Tull SWP Comments, 2013 | 31 | 2013 |
| Actually existing security: The political economy of the Saharan threat W Lacher Security Dialogue 39 (4), 383-405, 2008 | 30 | 2008 |
| A paradox of plenty M Basedau, W Lacher Rent distribution and political stability in oil states, 2006 | 25 | 2006 |