| The Afghanistan Wars W Maley Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020 | 564 | 2020 |
| Fundamentalism reborn?: Afghanistan and the Taliban W Maley NYU Press, 1998 | 269 | 1998 |
| Security sector reform and post-conflict peacebuilding HG Ehrhart, A Schnabel United Nations University Press, 2005 | 186 | 2005 |
| Rescuing Afghanistan W Maley UNSW Press, 2006 | 170 | 2006 |
| Fundamentalism reborn W Maley Afghanistan and the Taliban, 253, 1998 | 150 | 1998 |
| Global governance and diplomacy: worlds apart? W Maley Springer, 2008 | 126 | 2008 |
| Nationalities in the Baltic States: A survey study R Rose, W Maley The Centre, 1994 | 120 | 1994 |
| The Ottawa convention on landmines: A landmark humanitarian treaty in arms control R Thakur, W Maley Global Governance 5, 273, 1999 | 113 | 1999 |
| The soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan A Saikal, W Maley Cambridge University Press, 1989 | 109 | 1989 |
| What is a Refugee? W Maley Oxford University Press, 2016 | 104 | 2016 |
| Interpreting the Taliban W Maley | 83 | 1998 |
| Statebuilding in Afghanistan: challenges and pathologies W Maley Central Asian Survey 32 (3), 255-270, 2013 | 80 | 2013 |
| The afghan refugees in Pakistan F Grare, W Maley J Middle East Institute. Refugees Cooperation, 43-63, 2011 | 71 | 2011 |
| Regime change in Afghanistan: Foreign intervention and the politics of legitimacy A Saikal, W Maley Routledge, 2019 | 70 | 2019 |
| Asylum-seekers in Australia's international relations W Maley Australian Journal of International Affairs 57 (1), 187-202, 2003 | 68 | 2003 |
| The Australian political system D Lovell, I McAllister, W Maley, C Kukathas Addison Wesley Longman, 1995 | 68 | 1995 |
| Security, people-smuggling, and Australia's new Afghan refugees W Maley Australian Journal of International Affairs 55 (3), 351-370, 2001 | 65 | 2001 |
| Theorising the responsibility to protect R Thakur, W Maley Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 58 | 2015 |
| Reconstructing Afghanistan: Civil-military experiences in comparative perspective W Maley, S Schmeidl Routledge, 2014 | 58* | 2014 |
| Political legitimation in contemporary Afghanistan W Maley Asian Survey 27 (6), 705-725, 1987 | 56 | 1987 |
