| The successful laggards: Bulgaria and Romania's accession to the EU G Noutcheva, D Bechev East European politics and societies 22 (1), 114-144, 2008 | 287 | 2008 |
| EU conditionality in South East Europe: bringing commitment to the process O Anastasakis, D Bechev South East European Studies Programme, 1-20, 2003 | 244 | 2003 |
| Rival power: Russia's influence in Southeast Europe D Bechev Yale University Press, 2017 | 208 | 2017 |
| Carrots, sticks and norms: the EU and regional cooperation in Southeast Europe D Bechev Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans 8 (1), 27-43, 2006 | 156 | 2006 |
| The Periphery of the periphery: the Western Balkans and the Euro Crisis D Bechev The New Century, 30-40, 2012 | 141 | 2012 |
| Constructing South East Europe: the politics of Balkan regional cooperation D Bechev Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 | 121 | 2011 |
| From Policy to Polity: Can the EU's Special Relations with its ‘Neighbourhood’be Decentred? D Bechev, K Nicolaïdis JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 48 (3), 475-500, 2010 | 100 | 2010 |
| Turkey in the Balkans: Taking a broader view D Bechev Insight Turkey 14 (1), 131-146, 2012 | 97 | 2012 |
| Contested borders, contested identity: the case of regionalism in Southeast Europe D Bechev Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 4 (1), 77-95, 2004 | 92 | 2004 |
| Constructing South East Europe: The politics of regional identity in the Balkans D Bechev European Studies Centre. University of Oxford, 2006 | 71 | 2006 |
| Russia’s strategic interests and tools of influence in the Western Balkans D Bechev NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, 2019 | 69 | 2019 |
| Top-down vs bottom-up aspects of the EU institution-building strategies in the Western Balkans D Bechev, S Andreev Occasional Paper 3 (05), 2005 | 66 | 2005 |
| Mediterranean Frontiers D Bechev, K Nicolaidis IB Tauris, 2009 | 60 | 2009 |
| Historical dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia D Bechev Scarecrow Press, 2009 | 56 | 2009 |
| Turkey Under Erdoğan D Bechev Yale University Press, 2022 | 44 | 2022 |
| From policy-takers to policy-makers? Observations on Bulgarian and Romanian foreign policy before and after EU accession D Bechev The European Union's 2007 Enlargement, 62-76, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| Understanding the contest between the EU and Russia in their shared neighborhood D Bechev Problems of Post-Communism 62 (6), 340-349, 2015 | 38 | 2015 |
| The 2016 Coup Attempt in Montenegro: Is Russia’s Balkans Footprint Expanding? D Bechev < bound method Organization. get_name_with_acronym of< Organization: Foreign …, 2018 | 35 | 2018 |
| Turkey's Illiberal Turn D Bechev European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), 2014 | 32 | 2014 |
| Russia’s influence in Bulgaria D Bechev The Foundation for European Reform, London, 2016 | 31 | 2016 |
