| The state of the state: The model of the modern state and its contemporary transformation R Axtmann International Political Science Review 25 (3), 259-279, 2004 | 231 | 2004 |
| Liberal democracy into the twenty-first century: globalization, integration and the nation-state R Axtmann Manchester University Press, 1996 | 192 | 1996 |
| Globalization and Europe R Axtmann A&C Black, 1998 | 116 | 1998 |
| Authority, state and national character: the civilizing process in Austria and England, 1700-1900 H Kuzmics, R Axtmann Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 | 54 | 2007 |
| ‘Police’and the Formation of the Modern State. Legal and Ideological Assumptions on State Capacity in the Austrian Lands of the Habsburg Empire, 1500–1800 R Axtmann German History 10 (1), 39-61, 1992 | 52 | 1992 |
| Kulturelle Globalisierung, kollektive Identität und demokratischer Nationalstaat R Axtmann Leviathan 23 (1), 87-101, 1995 | 50 | 1995 |
| Democracy: problems and perspectives R Axtmann Edinburgh University Press, 2007 | 49 | 2007 |
| Collective identity and the democratic nation-state in the age of globalization R Axtmann Articulating the Global and the Local, 33-54, 2018 | 48 | 2018 |
| What’s wrong with cosmopolitan democracy?’ R Axtmann Global citizenship: A critical introduction, 101-13, 2002 | 47 | 2002 |
| Globality, plurality and freedom: the Arendtian perspective R Axtmann Review of International Studies 32 (1), 93-117, 2006 | 45 | 2006 |
| Humanity or enmity? Carl Schmitt on international politics R Axtmann International Politics 44, 531-551, 2007 | 38 | 2007 |
| Society, globalization and the comparative method R Axtmann History of the human sciences 6 (2), 53-74, 1993 | 38 | 1993 |
| Understanding democratic politics: an introduction R Axtmann Sage, 2003 | 33 | 2003 |
| Globalization, Europe and the state: introductory reflections R Axtmann Pinter, 1998 | 32 | 1998 |
| Balancing democracy R Axtmann lLondon: Continuum, 2001 | 31 | 2001 |
| Autorität, Staat und Nationalcharakter Kuzmics VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2000 | 22 | 2000 |
| The formation of the modern state: the debate in the social sciences R Axtmann National Histories and European History, 21-45, 1993 | 21 | 1993 |
| Autorität, Staat und Nationalcharakter: der Zivilisationsprozess in Oesterreich und England 1700–1900 H Kuzmics, R Axtmann Springer-Verlag, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| State formation and supranationalism in Europe: The case of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation R Axtmann Europe without Borders. Baltimore, 118-139, 2003 | 19 | 2003 |
| The formation of the modern state: a reconstruction of Max Weber's arguments R Axtmann History of Political Thought 11 (2), 295-311, 1990 | 19 | 1990 |
