| The US-Philippine alliance: An evolving hedge against an emerging China challenge RC De Castro Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic …, 2009 | 89 | 2009 |
| The Duterte administration's foreign policy: unravelling the Aquino administration's balancing agenda on an emergent China RC De Castro Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 35 (3), 139-159, 2016 | 84 | 2016 |
| The Revitalized Philippine-US Security Relations: A Ghost from the Cold War or an Alliance for the 21st Century? RC De Castro Asian Survey 43 (6), 971, 2003 | 65 | 2003 |
| The Philippines confronts China in the South China Sea: Power politics vs. liberalism-legalism R De Castro Asian perspective 39 (1), 71-100, 2015 | 53 | 2015 |
| The Duterte Administration’s appeasement policy on China and the crisis in the Philippine–US alliance RC De Castro Philippine Political Science Journal 38 (3), 159-181, 2017 | 50 | 2017 |
| The risk of applying Realpolitik in resolving the South China Sea Dispute: implications on regional security RC De Castro Pacific Focus 27 (2), 262-289, 2012 | 41 | 2012 |
| Philippine defense policy in the 21st century: Autonomous defense or back to the alliance? RC De Castro Pacific Affairs 78 (3), 403-422, 2005 | 41 | 2005 |
| Facing up to China’s realpolitik approach in the South China Sea dispute: The case of the 2012 Scarborough Shoal stand-off and its aftermath RC De Castro Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs 3 (2), 157-182, 2016 | 39 | 2016 |
| The Obama Administration’s Strategic Pivot to Asia: From a Diplomatic to a Strategic Constrainment of an Emergent China? RC De Castro the Korean journal of defense analysis 25 (3), 331-349, 2013 | 38 | 2013 |
| Addressing international terrorism in Southeast Asia: A matter of strategic or functional approach? RC De Castro Contemporary Southeast Asia, 193-217, 2004 | 38 | 2004 |
| Explaining the Duterte administration’s appeasement policy on China: The power of fear RC De Castro Asian Affairs: An American Review 45 (3-4), 165-191, 2018 | 36 | 2018 |
| The 1997 Asian financial crisis and the revival of populism/neo-populism in 21st century Philippine politics RC De Castro Asian Survey 47 (6), 930-951, 2007 | 36 | 2007 |
| Whither geoeconomics? Bureaucratic inertia in US post-Cold War foreign policy toward East Asia RC De Castro Asian Affairs: An American Review 26 (4), 201-221, 2000 | 35 | 2000 |
| The Aquino Administration's balancing policy against an Emergent China: its domestic and external dimensions RC De Castro Pacific Affairs 87 (1), 5-27, 2014 | 34 | 2014 |
| Philippine strategic culture: continuity in the face of changing regional dynamics RC De Castro Strategic Cultures and Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific, 84-104, 2016 | 32 | 2016 |
| China and Japan in maritime Southeast Asia: Extending their geo-strategic rivalry by competing for friends RC De Castro Philippine Political Science Journal 34 (2), 150-169, 2013 | 31 | 2013 |
| Weakness and gambits in Philippine foreign policy in the twenty-first century RC De Castro Pacific Affairs 83 (4), 697-717, 2010 | 31 | 2010 |
| The Philippines in 2011: Muddling through a year of learning and adjustment RC De Castro Asian Survey 52 (1), 210-219, 2012 | 30* | 2012 |
| China, the Philippines, and US influence in Asia RC De Castro American Enterprise Institute., 2022 | 29 | 2022 |
| Adjusting to the post-US bases era: The ordeal of the Philippine military's modernization program RC De Castro Armed Forces & Society 26 (1), 119-137, 1999 | 28 | 1999 |
