Doktoravhandlingen hans har tittelen A genealogy of the balance of power[4] og handlet om bruken av maktbalansebegrepet blant beslutningstakere og i den offentlige sfære, historisk og i dag.
Andersen, M.S, A. Cooley, and D Nexon (2021). Undermining American Hegemony: Goods substitution in World Politics. Cambridge University Press.
Andersen, Morten Skumsrud and William C. Wohlforth (2021) Balance of Power: A key concept in historical perspective. Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations, 289-301
Andersen, Morten Skumsrud. (2012) Legitimacy in State‐Building: A Review of the IR Literature. International Political Sociology, doi: 10.1111/j.1749‐5687.2012.00159.x
Andersen, M. S., & Neumann, I. B. (2012). Practices as models: a methodology with an illustration concerning Wampum diplomacy. Millennium: : Journal of International Studies, 40(3), 457-481.
Andersen, M. S. (2016). Semi-cores in imperial relations: The cases of Scotland and Norway. Review of International Studies, 42(1), 178-203.
Sending, O. J., & Andersen, M. S. (2010). Liberia og fredsbygging: en institusjonell forskningsagenda. Internasjonal Politikk, 68(02), 275-286.
Andersen, M. S. (2017). Brende, Kina, og en skiftende verdensorden. Internasjonal Politikk, 75(3/4), 278-285.
Andersen, M. S., & de Carvalho, B. En ny opprinnelse? Om 1800-tallet som startskuddet for dagens internasjonal politikk. Internasjonal Politikk, 72(02), 318-327.
Morten Skumsrud Andersen og Benjamin de Carvalho: The family of nations. Kinship as an international ordering principle in the nineteenth century. Kinship in International Relations, Routledge, 2019.
Morten Skumsrud Andersen: The Balance of Power. The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy, edited by GordonMartel, John Wiley & Sons. DOI:10.1002/9781118885154.dipl0339
Andersen, M. S., & Neumann, I. B. (2015). The Danish empire and Norway’s place therein. Scandinavica - International Journal of Scandinavian Studies, 54(1), 10-29.
Andersen, M. S. (2015). How to study NGOs in practice: a relational primer. In The NGO challenge for international relations theory (pp. 61-84). Routledge.
^Morten Skumsrud Andersen (2016). A genealogy of the balance of power (avhandling) (på engelsk). The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). s. 315.