| The Vietnamese revolution of 1945: Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh and De Gaulle in a world at war S Tønnesson (No Title), 1991 | 165 | 1991 |
| Vietnam's Objective in the South China Sea: National or Regional Security? S Tønnesson Contemporary Southeast Asia, 199-220, 2000 | 78 | 2000 |
| Norsk idretts historie F Olstad, S Tønnesson Aschehoug, 1987 | 78 | 1987 |
| The South China Sea in the age of European decline S Tønnesson Modern Asian Studies 40 (1), 1-57, 2006 | 73 | 2006 |
| What is it that best explains the East Asian peace since 1979? A call for a research agenda S Tønnesson Asian Perspective 33 (1), 111-136, 2009 | 69 | 2009 |
| Globalising national states S Tønnesson Nations and Nationalism 10 (1‐2), 179-194, 2004 | 62 | 2004 |
| Energy Security in Asia: China, India, Oil and Peace S Tønnesson, Å Kolås PRIO, 2006 | 55 | 2006 |
| Sino-Vietnamese Rapprochement and the South China Sea Irritant S Tønnesson Security Dialogue 34 (1), 55-70, 2003 | 52 | 2003 |
| The impact of the law of the sea convention on conflict and conflict management in the South China Sea Y Song, S Tønnesson Ocean Development & international law 44 (3), 235-269, 2013 | 49 | 2013 |
| An international history of the dispute in the South China Sea S Tønnesson East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 2001 | 40 | 2001 |
| Norsk idretts historie. Folkehelse, trim, stjerner. 1939-1986 S Tønnesson Oslo: Aschehoug, 1986 | 40 | 1986 |
| Democracy in Vietnam?: Report Commissioned by the Teh Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA) S Tønnesson, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, ... Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 1993 | 37 | 1993 |
| The history of the dispute S Tonnesson War or peace in the South China Sea, 6-23, 2002 | 35 | 2002 |
| China and the South China Sea: a peace proposal S Tønnesson Security Dialogue 31 (3), 307-326, 2000 | 35 | 2000 |
| The Paracels: The" Other" South China Sea Dispute S Tønnesson Asian Perspective 26 (4), 145-169, 2002 | 34 | 2002 |
| Asia in theories of nationalism and national identity S Tønnesson, H Antlöv Asian forms of the Nation, 1-40, 2013 | 33 | 2013 |
| Explaining the East Asian peace: A research story S Tønnesson (No Title), 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
| 1946: Déclenchement de la guerre d'Indochine: Les vêpres tonkinoises du 19 décembre S Tonnesson 1946, 1-274, 1985 | 32 | 1985 |
| The longest wars: Indochina 1945-75 S Tønnesson Journal of Peace Research 22 (1), 9-29, 1985 | 27 | 1985 |
| Can Russia keep its special ties with Vietnam while moving closer and closer to China? PK Baev, S Tønnesson International Area Studies Review 18 (3), 312-325, 2015 | 26 | 2015 |
