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| Cold war and covert action: The United States and Syria, 1945-1958 D Little Middle East Journal 44 (1), 51-75, 1990 | 183 | 1990 |
| Malevolent Neutrality: The United States, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War D Little (No Title), 1985 | 170 | 1985 |
| The making of a special relationship: the United States and Israel, 1957–68 D Little International Journal of Middle East Studies 25 (4), 563-585, 1993 | 158 | 1993 |
| The passionate attachment: America's involvement with Israel, 1947 to the present GW Ball, DB Ball, D Little WW norton, 1992 | 140 | 1992 |
| His finest hour? Eisenhower, Lebanon, and the 1958 Middle East crisis D Little Diplomatic History 20 (1), 27-54, 1996 | 100 | 1996 |
| Mission Impossible: The CIA and the Cult of Covert Action in the Middle East D Little Diplomatic History 28 (5), 663-701, 2004 | 94 | 2004 |
| A puppet in search of a puppeteer? The United States, King Hussein, and Jordan, 1953–1970 D Little The International History Review 17 (3), 512-544, 1995 | 79 | 1995 |
| The New Frontier on the Nile: JFK, Nasser, and Arab NationaHsm D Little The Journal of American History 75 (2), 501-527, 1988 | 74 | 1988 |
| The United States and the Kurds: A Cold War Story D Little Journal of Cold War Studies 12 (4), 63-98, 2010 | 59 | 2010 |
| Red Scare, 1936: Anti-Bolshevism and the Origins of British Non-Intervention in the Spanish Civil War D Little Journal of Contemporary History 23 (2), 291-314, 1988 | 51 | 1988 |
| Twenty years of turmoil: ITT, the state department, and Spain, 1924–1944 DJ Little Business History Review 53 (4), 449-472, 1979 | 48 | 1979 |
| Gideon's band: America and the Middle East since 1945 D Little Diplomatic History 18 (4), 513-540, 1994 | 46 | 1994 |
| The Cold War in the Middle East: Suez Crisis to Camp David Accords D Little na, 2010 | 45 | 2010 |
| Pipeline politics: America, TAPLINE, and the Arabs D Little Business History Review 64 (2), 255-285, 1990 | 41 | 1990 |
| Antibolshevism and American Foreign Policy, 1919-1939: The Diplomacy of Self-Delusion D Little American Quarterly 35 (4), 376-390, 1983 | 39 | 1983 |
| Us versus them: The United States, radical Islam, and the rise of the green threat D Little UNC Press Books, 2022 | 33 | 2022 |
| From Even-Handed to Empty-Handed: Seeking Order in the Middle East D Little Kennedy’s Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy 1963, 156-77, 1961 | 30 | 1961 |
| Cold War and Colonialism in Africa: The United States, France, and the Madagascar Revolt of 1947 D Little Pacific Historical Review 59 (4), 527-552, 1990 | 24 | 1990 |
| Choosing Sides: Lyndon Johnson and the Middle East D Little The Johnson Years 3, 150-97, 1994 | 23 | 1994 |
