| The protection racket state: Elite politics, military extortion, and civil war in El Salvador W Stanley Temple University Press, 2010 | 544 | 2010 |
| Economic migrants or refugees from violence?: A time-series analysis of Salvadoran migration to the United States WD Stanley Latin American Research Review 22 (1), 132-154, 1987 | 235 | 1987 |
| Liberal social reconstruction and the resolution of civil wars in Central America M Peceny, W Stanley International Organization 55 (1), 149-182, 2001 | 135 | 2001 |
| Building the peace: Preliminary lessons from El Salvador D Holiday, W Stanley Journal of International Affairs, 415-438, 1993 | 129 | 1993 |
| Protecting the people: Public security choices after civil wars CT Call, W Stanley Global Governance 7 (2), 151-172, 2001 | 114 | 2001 |
| Broad participation, diffuse responsibility: Peace implementation in Guatemala W Stanley, D Holiday Ending civil wars: The implementation of peace agreements, 421-462, 2002 | 108 | 2002 |
| Counterinsurgency in El Salvador M Peceny, WD Stanley Politics & Society 38 (1), 67-94, 2010 | 71 | 2010 |
| Building new police forces in El Salvador and Guatemala: Learning and counter‐learning W Stanley International Peacekeeping 6 (4), 113-134, 1999 | 66 | 1999 |
| Civilian security CT Call, W Stanley Ending Civil Wars: the implementation of peace agreements, 303-326, 2002 | 60 | 2002 |
| The Protection Racket State: Elite Politics W Stanley Military Extortion, and, 1996 | 53 | 1996 |
| El Salvador: State-building before and after democratisation, 1980–95 WD Stanley From Nation-Building to State-Building, 97-110, 2013 | 52 | 2013 |
| International tutelage and domestic political will: Building a new civilian police force in El Salvador W Stanley Studies in Comparative International Development 30, 30-58, 1995 | 48 | 1995 |
| Military and police reform after civil wars CT Call, W Stanley Contemporary peacemaking: Conflict, violence and peace processes, 212-223, 2003 | 46 | 2003 |
| Enabling peace in Guatemala: The story of MINUGUA W Stanley Lynne Rienner Publishers, Incorporated, 2013 | 41 | 2013 |
| El Salvador: the civilian police component of peace operations W Stanley, R Loosle Policing the New World Disorder, 103-142, 1998 | 41 | 1998 |
| Peace mission strategy and domestic actors: UN mediation, verification and institution‐building in El Salvador W Stanley, D Holiday International Peacekeeping 4 (2), 22-49, 1997 | 36 | 1997 |
| Protectors Or Perpetrators?: The Institutional Crisis of the Salvadoran Civilian Police WD Stanley Washington Office on Latin America, 1996 | 35 | 1996 |
| Under the Best of Circumstances: ONUSAL and the Challenges of Verification and Institution Building in El Salvador D Holiday, W Stanley Peacemaking and Democratization in the Western Hemisphere, 37-65, 2000 | 23 | 2000 |
| Protectors or perpetrators W Stanley The institutional crisis in the salvadorean, 1996 | 20 | 1996 |
| Risking Failure: The Problems and Promise of the New Civilian Police in El Salvador W Stanley Hemisphere Initiatives, 1993 | 17 | 1993 |
