ローレンス・フリードマン(Sir Lawrence David Freedman、1948年12月7日 - )は、イギリスの国際政治学者。専門は、戦略研究・安全保障論・イギリス外交政策。
マンチェスター大学、ヨーク大学、オックスフォード大学ナッフィールド・カレッジで学ぶ。国際戦略研究所、王立国際問題研究所を経て、1982年から、ロンドン大学キングス・カレッジ戦争学部教授。
- US Intelligence and the Soviet Strategic Threat, (Macmillan, 1977, 2nd ed., 1986).
- Britain and Nuclear Weapons, (Macmillan, 1980).
- The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy, (Macmillan, 1982, 2nd ed., 1989, 3rd ed., 2003).
- Atlas of Global Strategy, (Macmillan, 1985).
- The Price of Peace: Living with the Nuclear Dilemma, (Firethorn, 1986).
- Arms Control: Management or Reform?, (Routledge & K. Paul, 1986).
- Britain and the Falklands War, (Blackwell, 1988).
- The Revolution in Strategic Affairs, (Oxford University Press, 1998).
- The Politics of British Defence, 1979-98, (Macmillan, 1999).
- Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam, (Oxford University Press, 2000).
- The Cold War: A Military History, (Cassell, 2001).
- Deterrence, (Polity Press, 2004).
- The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, vol. 1: the Origins of the Falklands War, (Routledge, 2005, revised ed., 2007).
- The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, vol. 2: War and Diplomacy, (Routledge, 2005, revised ed., 2007).
- The Transformation of Strategic Affairs, (Routledge, 2006).
- A Coice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East, (Public Affairs, 2008).
- Strategy: a history. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- 『戦略の世界史――戦争・政治・ビジネス』、上下巻、貫井佳子訳、日本経済新聞出版社、2018年
- The Future of War: a history, PublicAffairs, 2017.
- 『戦争の未来――人類はいつも「次の戦争」を予測する』、奥山真司訳、中央公論新社、2021年
- Signals of War: the Falklands Conflict of 1982, with Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse, (Faber and Faber, 1990).
- The Gulf Conflict, 1990-1991: Diplomacy and War in the New World Order, with Efraim Karsh, (Princeton University Press, 1993).
- The Troubled Alliance: Atlantic Relations in the 1980's, (Heinemann, 1983).
- Europe Transformed: Documents on the End of the Cold War, (St. Martin's Press, 1990).
- Military Power in Europe: Essays in Memory of Jonathan Alford, (Macmillan, 1990).
- War, (Oxford University Press, 1994).
- Military Intervention in European Conflicts, (Blackwell, 1994).
- Strategic Coercion: Concepts and Cases, (Oxford University Press, 1998).
- Superterrorism: Policy Responses, (Blackwell, 2002).
- US Nuclear Strategy: A Reader, co-edited with Philip Bobbitt and Gregory F. Treverton, (Macmillan, 1989).
- Britain in the World, co-edited with Michael Clarke, (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
- Population Change and European Security, co-edited with John Saunders, (Brassey's, 1991).
- War, Strategy, and International Politics: Essays in Honour of Sir Michael Howard, co-edited with Paul Hayes and Robert O'Neill, (Clarendon Press, 1992).
- The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe: the Politics of Post-wall Arms Control, co-edited with Catherine McArdle Kelleher and Jane M. O. Sharp, (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996).