| The unipolar illusion: Why new great powers will rise C Layne International security 17 (4), 5-51, 1993 | 1777 | 1993 |
| Kant or cant: The myth of the democratic peace C Layne The Realism Reader, 301-310, 2014 | 1410 | 2014 |
| The peace of illusions: American grand strategy from 1940 to the present C Layne Cornell University Press, 2006 | 1021 | 2006 |
| The unipolar illusion revisited: The coming end of the United States' unipolar moment C Layne International security 31 (2), 7-41, 2006 | 678 | 2006 |
| From preponderance to offshore balancing: America's future grand strategy C Layne International Security 22 (1), 86-124, 1997 | 638 | 1997 |
| This Time It's Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana C Layne International studies quarterly 56 (1), 203-213, 2012 | 621 | 2012 |
| The democratic peace B Russett, C Layne, DE Spiro, MW Doyle International Security 19 (4), 164-184, 1995 | 440 | 1995 |
| The US–Chinese power shift and the end of the Pax Americana C Layne International Affairs 94 (1), 89-111, 2018 | 374 | 2018 |
| The waning of US hegemony—myth or reality? A review essay C Layne International Security 34 (1), 147-172, 2009 | 314 | 2009 |
| China's challenge to US hegemony C Layne Current History 107 (705), 13, 2008 | 212 | 2008 |
| American hegemony: without an enemy C Layne, B Schwarz Foreign Policy, 5-23, 1993 | 169 | 1993 |
| Offshore balancing revisited C Layne Washington Quarterly 25 (2), 233-248, 2002 | 164 | 2002 |
| Rethinking American grand strategy: Hegemony or balance of power in the twenty-first century? C Layne World policy journal 15 (2), 8-28, 1998 | 161 | 1998 |
| The unbearable lightness of soft power C Layne Soft power and US foreign policy, 63-94, 2010 | 157 | 2010 |
| The “Poster Child for offensive realism”: America as a global hegemon C Layne Security Studies 12 (2), 120-164, 2002 | 143 | 2002 |
| American empire: A debate C Layne, BA Thayer Routledge, 2006 | 125 | 2006 |
| America as European hegemon C Layne The National Interest, 17-29, 2003 | 100 | 2003 |
| America’s Middle East grand strategy after Iraq: the moment for offshore balancing has arrived C Layne Review of International Studies 35 (1), 5-25, 2009 | 97 | 2009 |
| The unipolar exit: beyond the Pax Americana C Layne Cambridge Review of International Affairs 24 (2), 149-164, 2011 | 94 | 2011 |
| A new grand strategy B Schwarz, C Layne Atlantic Monthly 289 (1), 36-42, 2002 | 91 | 2002 |
