| Explaining the clash and accommodation of interests of major actors in the creation of the African Union TK Tieku African Affairs 103 (411), 249-267, 2004 | 230 | 2004 |
| What difference can a path make? Regional democracy promotion regimes in the Americas and Africa T Legler, TK Tieku Democratization 17 (3), 465-491, 2010 | 107 | 2010 |
| African Union promotion of human security in Africa TK Tieku African Security Review 16 (2), 26-37, 2007 | 72 | 2007 |
| Governing Africa: 3D analysis of the African Union's performance TK Tieku Rowman & Littlefield, 2017 | 69 | 2017 |
| Collectivist Worldview: its challenge to international relations TK Tieku Africa and international relations in the 21st century, 36-50, 2012 | 58 | 2012 |
| The African Union's New Security Agenda: Is Africa Closer to a Pax Pan-Africana? K Powell, TK Tieku International Journal 60 (4), 937-952, 2005 | 39 | 2005 |
| Theoretical approaches to Africa’s international relations TK Tieku Handbook of Africa's International Relations, 11-20, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
| African actors in international security: Shaping contemporary norms KP Coleman, TK Tieku Lynne Rienner Publishers, Incorporated, 2018 | 33 | 2018 |
| Multilateralization of Democracy Promotion and Defence in Africa TK Tieku Canadian Political Science Association, 2008 | 32 | 2008 |
| The African Union: successes and failures TK Tieku Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 2019 | 29 | 2019 |
| Exercising African agency in Burundi via multilateral channels: opportunities and challenges TK Tieku Conflict, Security & Development 13 (5), 513-535, 2013 | 27 | 2013 |
| Ruling from the shadows: The nature and functions of informal international rules in world politics TK Tieku International Studies Review 21 (2), 225-243, 2019 | 25 | 2019 |
| The Evolution of the African Union Commission and Africrats: Drivers of African Regionalisms TK Tieku The Ashgate Research Companion to Regionalisms, 193-212, 2012 | 23* | 2012 |
| People who run African affairs: staffing and recruitment in the African Union Commission TK Tieku, S Gänzle, J Trondal The journal of modern african studies 58 (3), 461-481, 2020 | 21 | 2020 |
| Punching above weight: How the African Union Commission exercises agency in politics TK Tieku Africa Spectrum 56 (3), 254-273, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
| A Curious Case of Hybrid Paternalism: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between the UN and AU on Peace and Security TK Tieku, TF Hakak African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 4 (2), 129-156, 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
| A pan-African view of a new agenda for peace TK Tieku International Journal 67 (2), 373-389, 2012 | 16 | 2012 |
| African actors in international security: four pathways to influence KP Coleman, TK Tieku African Actors in International Security: shaping contemporary norms, 1-20, 2018 | 14 | 2018 |
| The African Union and the responsibility to protect: towards a protection regime for Africa? K Powell, TK Tieku International Insights 20 (1&2), 215-235, 2005 | 14 | 2005 |
| The legon school of international relations TK Tieku Review of International Studies 47 (5), 656-671, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
