| Keys to the kingdom: Current scholarship on Saudi Arabia FH Lawson International Journal of Middle East Studies 43 (4), 737-747, 2011 | 171 | 2011 |
| Bahrain: The modernization of autocracy FH Lawson Routledge, 2019 | 154 | 2019 |
| Why Syria goes to war: Thirty years of confrontation FH Lawson Cornell University Press, 1996 | 116 | 1996 |
| Demystifying Syria FH Lawson Saqi, 2012 | 72 | 2012 |
| Constructing international relations in the Arab world F Lawson Stanford University Press, 2006 | 69 | 2006 |
| Syria's mutating civil war and its impact on Turkey, Iraq and Iran FH Lawson International Affairs 90 (6), 1351-1365, 2014 | 62 | 2014 |
| Syria's intervention in the Lebanese civil war, 1976: a domestic conflict explanation FH Lawson International Organization 38 (3), 451-480, 1984 | 62 | 1984 |
| The social origins of Egyptian expansionism during the Muhammad Ali period FH Lawson (No Title), 1992 | 61 | 1992 |
| Social bases for the Hamah revolt FH Lawson Merip Reports, 24-28, 1982 | 58 | 1982 |
| Repertoires of contention in contemporary Bahrain FH Lawson Islamic activism: A social movement theory approach, 89-111, 2004 | 48 | 2004 |
| Syria's relations with Iran: Managing the dilemmas of alliance FH Lawson The Middle East Journal 61 (1), 29-47, 2007 | 47 | 2007 |
| Hegemony and the structure of international trade reassessed: a view from Arabia FH Lawson International Organization 37 (2), 317-337, 1983 | 45 | 1983 |
| Egypt versus Ethiopia: the conflict over the Nile Metastasizes FH Lawson The International Spectator 52 (4), 129-144, 2017 | 42 | 2017 |
| Armies and insurgencies in the Arab Spring H Albrecht, A Croissant, FH Lawson University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016 | 41 | 2016 |
| Global Security Watch—Syria FH Lawson Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2013 | 38 | 2013 |
| Rural revolt and provincial society in Egypt, 1820–1824 FH Lawson International Journal of Middle East Studies 13 (2), 131-153, 1981 | 35 | 1981 |
| Heritage and cultural nationalism in the United Arab Emirates FH Lawson, HM al-Naboodah Popular culture and political identity in the Arab Gulf states, 15-30, 2008 | 34 | 2008 |
| The Iranian Crisis of 1945–1946 and the Spiral Model of International Conflict FH Lawson International Journal of Middle East Studies 21 (3), 307-326, 1989 | 34 | 1989 |
| Domestic transformation and foreign steadfastness in contemporary Syria FH Lawson Middle East Journal 48 (1), 47-64, 1994 | 33 | 1994 |
| Using positive sanctions to end international conflicts: Iran and the Arab Gulf countries FH Lawson Journal of Peace Research 20 (4), 311-328, 1983 | 25 | 1983 |
