Walton, C. D. (2012) Grand strategy and the presidency: foreign policy, war, and the American role in the world. Strategy and History . Routledge, London and New York, pp224. ISBN 9780415598323

Walton, C. D. (2012) The war without a strategy: presidents, the pentagon, and problems in civil-military relations since the 9/11 attacks. In: Cimbala, S. J. (ed.) Civil-military relations in perspective: strategy, structure and policy. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 101-114. ISBN 9781409429784

Walton, C. D. (2010) Nuclear questions: Bush administration WMD security strategy and the second nuclear age. In: Cimbala, S. J. (ed.) The George W. Bush defense program: policy, strategy and war. Potomac Books, Washington, DC, pp. 185-202. ISBN 9781597975087

Walton, C. (2009) The second nuclear age: nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century. In: Baylis, J. and Wirtz, J. (eds.) Strategy in the contemporary world: an introduction to strategic studies (3rd Edition). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp480. ISBN 9780199548873

Gray, C. S., Bath, M., Sloan, G. R. F. and Walton, C. D. (2009) The Royal Navy and British security in the twenty-first century: The short game and the long game. The Naval Review, 97 (3). pp. 223-228.

Walton, C. (2009) Strategy in the contemporary world. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Walton, C. D. (2009) The case for strategic traditionalism: war, national interest and liberal peacebuilding. International Peacekeeping, 16 (5). pp. 717-734. ISSN 1353-3312 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13533310903303354

Walton, C. D., Jordan, D., Kiras, J., Lonsdale, D., Speler, I. and Tuck, C. (2008) Understanding modern warfare. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp371. ISBN 9780521876988

Walton, C. (2007) The second nuclear age: nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century. In: Baylis, J., Wirtz, J. and Gray, C. S. (eds.) Strategy in the contemporary world: an introduction to strategic studies. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 209-227. ISBN 9780199289783

Walton, C. D. (2007) Geopolitics and the great powers in the 21st Century: Multipolarity and the revolution in strategic perspective. Geopolitical Theory series. Routledge, London and New York. ISBN 9780415358538

Walton, C. D. (2007) Not only Islamism: Great power politics and the future of terrorism. Comparative Strategy, 26 (1). pp. 21-37. ISSN 1521-0448 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01495930701271502

Walton, C. D. (2007) The triumph over illusion: William Van Cleave and the battle against conventional wisdom. In: Thayer, B. (ed.) American National Security Policy: Essays in Honor of William R. van Cleave. National Institute Press, Fairfax, VA, pp. 205-209. ISBN 9780977622115