| After Europe I Krastev University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020 | 501 | 2020 |
| Is East-Central Europe backsliding? The strange death of the liberal consensus I Krastev Journal of democracy 18 (4), 56-64, 2007 | 369 | 2007 |
| The light that failed: A reckoning I Krastev, S Holmes Penguin UK, 2019 | 356 | 2019 |
| The Balkans: democracy without choices I Krastev J. Democracy 13, 39, 2002 | 245 | 2002 |
| Imitation and its discontents I Krastev, S Holmes J. Democracy 29, 117, 2018 | 220 | 2018 |
| Paradoxes of the new authoritarianism I Krastev J. Democracy 22, 5, 2011 | 214 | 2011 |
| The light that failed S Holmes, I Krastev Simon and Schuster, 2020 | 188* | 2020 |
| Democracy disrupted: The politics of global protest I Krastev University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 | 155 | 2014 |
| Democracy's" doubles" I Krastev J. Democracy 17, 52, 2006 | 143 | 2006 |
| Europadämmerung: Ein Essay I Krastev Suhrkamp Verlag, 2017 | 136 | 2017 |
| Eastern Europe's illiberal revolution: The long road to democratic decline I Krastev Foreign Aff. 97, 49, 2018 | 124 | 2018 |
| The populist moment IY Krastev Критика и хуманизъм, 103-108, 2007 | 118 | 2007 |
| An autopsy of managed democracy I Krastev, S Holmes J. Democracy 23, 33, 2012 | 105 | 2012 |
| Pattern formation during the electrodeposition of a silver-antimony alloy I Krastev, MTM Koper Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 213 (1-2), 199-208, 1995 | 105 | 1995 |
| The unraveling of the post-1989 order I Krastev J. Democracy 27, 88, 2016 | 99 | 2016 |
| Liberalism's failure to deliver I Krastev J. Democracy 27, 35, 2016 | 98 | 2016 |
| The anti-American century? I Krastev Journal of Democracy 15 (2), 5-16, 2004 | 91 | 2004 |
| The rise of populism in Eastern Europe: Policy paper D Smilov, I Krastev Populist politics and liberal democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, 7-13, 2008 | 88 | 2008 |
| The new European disorder I Krastev, M Leonard European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), 2014 | 81 | 2014 |
| From politics to protest I Krastev J. Democracy 25, 5, 2014 | 78 | 2014 |
