| Upgrading the EU's role as global actor: institutions, law and the restructuring of European diplomacy M Emerson, R Balfour, T Corthaut, J Wouters, PM Kaczyński, RL Thomas Upgrading the EU's role as global actor, CEPS Paperbacks, 2011 | 141 | 2011 |
| EU conditionality after the Arab Spring R Balfour European Institute of the Mediterranean, 2012 | 126 | 2012 |
| Europe's Troublemakers: The populist challenge to foreign policy R Balfour, JA Emmanouilidis, H Grabbe, T Lochocki, C Mudde, J Schmidt, ... European Policy Centre, 2016 | 124 | 2016 |
| The Transformation of the Union for the Mediterranean: Profile R Balfour Mediterranean Politics 14 (1), 99-105, 2009 | 104 | 2009 |
| Beyond enlargement. The European neighbourhood policy and its tools R Balfour, A Rotta The International Spectator 40 (1), 7-20, 2005 | 89 | 2005 |
| Principles of democracy and human rights R Balfour Values and principles in European Union foreign policy, 114-129, 2006 | 77 | 2006 |
| The European external action service and national foreign ministries: Convergence or divergence? R Balfour, C Carta, K Raik Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2015 | 66 | 2015 |
| The democratic transformation of the Balkans R Balfour, C Stratulat EPC Issue Paper 66, 1-61, 2011 | 60 | 2011 |
| Reassessing the European Neighbourhood Policy R Balfour, A Missiroli European Policy Centre, 2007 | 60 | 2007 |
| Human rights and democracy in EU foreign policy: The cases of Ukraine and Egypt R Balfour Routledge, 2013 | 59 | 2013 |
| The European External Action Service and National Diplomacies R Balfour, K Raik EPC Issue Paper 73, 187, 2013 | 59 | 2013 |
| Union for the Mediterranean, disunity for the EU? D Schmid, R Balfour European Policy Centre, 2008 | 56 | 2008 |
| The European Neighbourhood Policy as a conflict prevention tool F Cameron, B Rosa EPC Issue Paper 47, 31, 2006 | 56 | 2006 |
| Rethinking the Euro-Mediterranean political and security dialogue R Balfour European Union Institute for Security Studies, 2004 | 56 | 2004 |
| The national politics of EU enlargement in the Western Balkans J Ker-Lindsay, I Armakolas, R Balfour, C Stratulat Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 17 (4), 511-522, 2017 | 54 | 2017 |
| Changes and continuities in EU-Mediterranean relations after the Arab Spring R Balfour An Arab springboard for EU foreign policy, 27-35, 2012 | 52 | 2012 |
| Upgrading the EU's Role as Global Actor M Emerson, R Balfour, T Corthaut, J Wouters, PM Kaczyński, T Renard Centre for European Policy Studies, 2011 | 49 | 2011 |
| The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Assessing the First Decade HA Fernández, R Youngs Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos, 2005 | 45 | 2005 |
| EU member states and enlargement towards the Balkans R Balfour, C Stratulat, G Avery, C Hillion, C Adebahr, T Töglhofer, ... EU Member States and Enlargement towards the Balkans, 250, 2015 | 44 | 2015 |
| Equipping the European Union for the 21st century: National diplomacies, the European External Action Service and the making of EU foreign policy R Balfour, K Raik Finnish Institute of International Affairs, 2013 | 41 | 2013 |
