A Peace Denied (1975) – Phân tích về cuộc đàm phán và sự thi hành Hiệp định Paris 1973.
Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution (1976) - Quyền sách này bác bỏ các cáo buộc giết người hàng loạt bởi chế độ Khmer Đỏ của Pol Pot tại Campuchia.
Vietnam: A History in Documents (1981) – Porter originally edited this documentary history of the war in a two-volume hardcover edition published in 1979, and it was reissued in paperback under the above-mentioned title.
Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam (2005) – This book challenges the liberal interpretation that the Vietnam war was the result of exaggeration of the Communist threat, and emphasizes the role of overconfidence that came with a decisive U.S. power advantage over the Liên Xô và Trung Quốc. Historian Andrew Bacevich, reviewing Perils of Dominance in The Nation, called it "without a doubt, the most important contribution to the history of U.S. national security policy to appear in the past decade."
