- The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950-1953, (Cornell University Press, 1985).
- A Substitute for Victory: the Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Admistice Talks, (Cornell University Press, 1990).
- The Practice of Power: US Relations with China since 1949, (Clarendon Press, 1995).
- Rights beyond Borders: the Global Community and the Struggle over Human Rights in China, (Oxford University Press, 2000).
- Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism in America's Asia Policy, (Oxford University Press, 2004).
- Migration, the Asian Experience, co-edited with Judith M. Brown, (Macmillan Press, 1994).
- Hong Kong's Transitions, 1842-1997, co-edited with Judith M. Brown, (Macmillan Press, 1997).
- Order and Justice in International Relations, co-edited with John Lewis Gaddis and Andrew Hurrell, (Oxford University Press, 2003).
- US Hegemony and International Organizations: the United States and Multilateral Institutions, co-edited with S. Neil MacFarlane and Michael Mastanduno, (Oxford University Press, 2003).
- Does China Matter?: A Reassessment: Essays in Memory of Gerald Segal, co-edited with Barry Buzan, (Routledge, 2004).