| The illicit global economy and state power HR Friman, P Andreas Rowman & Littlefield, 1999 | 254 | 1999 |
| Drug markets and the selective use of violence HR Friman Crime, law and social change 52, 285-295, 2009 | 137 | 2009 |
| Narcodiplomacy: exporting the US war on drugs HR Friman Cornell University Press, 1996 | 134 | 1996 |
| Side-payments versus security cards: domestic bargaining tactics in international economic negotiations HR Friman International Organization 47 (3), 387-410, 1993 | 113 | 1993 |
| Human Trafficking and the Balkans HR Friman, S Reich Human Trafficking, Human Security and the Balkans, 1-19, 2007 | 112* | 2007 |
| The Politics of Leverage in International Relations HR Friman Name, Shame, and, 2015 | 76 | 2015 |
| Patchwork protectionism: textile trade policy in the United States, Japan, and West Germany HR Friman (No Title), 1990 | 62 | 1990 |
| Crime and the global political economy HR Friman, HR Friman Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009 | 61 | 2009 |
| Introduction: International relations and the illicit global economy HR Friman, P Andreas The illicit global economy and state power, 1-24, 1999 | 54 | 1999 |
| Informal economies, immigrant entrepreneurship and drug crime in Japan HR Friman Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 27 (2), 313-333, 2001 | 51 | 2001 |
| The great escape? Globalization, immigrant entrepreneurship and the criminal economy HR Friman Review of International Political Economy 11 (1), 98-131, 2004 | 48 | 2004 |
| Forging the vacancy chain: law enforcement efforts and mobility in criminal economies HR Friman Crime, Law and Social Change 41, 53-77, 2004 | 43 | 2004 |
| Germany and the transformations of cocaine, 1860–1920 HR Friman Cocaine, 83-104, 2002 | 43 | 2002 |
| Gaijinhanzai: Immigrants and drugs in contemporary Japan HR Friman Asian Survey 36 (10), 964-977, 1996 | 32 | 1996 |
| Immigrant Smuggling and Threats to Social Order in Japan HR Friman Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives, 294-317, 2001 | 31* | 2001 |
| Numbers and certification: Assessing foreign compliance in combating narcotics and human trafficking HR Friman Sex, drugs and body counts: The politics o numbers in global conflict and …, 2010 | 29 | 2010 |
| Immovable object? Japan’s security policy in East Asia HR Friman, PJ Katzenstein, D Leheny, N Okawara Rethinking Japanese Security, 147-168, 2008 | 28 | 2008 |
| Rocks, hard places, and the new protectionism: textile trade policy choices in the United States and Japan HR Friman International Organization 42 (4), 689-723, 1988 | 24 | 1988 |
| International pressure and domestic bargains: Regulating money laundering in Japan HR Friman Crime, law and social change 21, 253-266, 1994 | 23 | 1994 |
| Crime and Globalization HR Friman Crime and the Global Political Economy, 1-20, 2009 | 22 | 2009 |
