Michael Leifer CMG (November 15, 1933 – March 21, 2001) was a British International Relations scholar specialising in the politics and international relations of South East Asia.
He was a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics and also served as its pro-director from 1991-1995.
Leifer studied Political Economy at the University of Reading and subsequently took his doctorate at the London School of Economics in 1959 with a dissertation on "Zionism and Palestine in British Opinion and Policy, 1945-1949". Prior to his death in 2001 he was awarded the Companion Medal of the 'Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George' for his work in academia and study of Southeast Asia.
Bibliography Michael Leifer: Selected Works on Southeast Asia, compiled and edited by Chin Kin Wah and Leo Suryadinata, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005 Dictionary of the modern politics of South-East Asia, - 3. ed. - London : Routledge, 2001 Asian nationalism, London : Routledge, 2000 Singapore's foreign policy : coping with vulnerability, London : Routledge, 2000 The ASEAN Regional Forum : a model for cooperative security in the Middle East, Canberra : Dept. of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), Australian National University (ANU), 1998 The Asean regional forum : extending ASEAN's model of regional security, London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1996 Dictionary of the modern politics of South-East Asia, London : Routledge, 1995 Vietnam and Doi Moi : domestic and international dimensions of reform, London, 1991 Cambodian conflict : the final phase?, London : Centre for Security and Conflict Studies, 1989 ASEAN and the security of South-East Asia, London : Routledge, 1989 The balance of power in East Asia, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1986 Indonesia's foreign policy, London : The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1983 Conflict and regional order in South-east Asia, London : International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1980 Malacca, Singapore, and Indonesia, Alphen aan den Rijn : Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1978 Dilemmas of statehood in Southeast Asia, Vancouver : Univ. of British Columbia Press and Singapore : Asia Pacific Press, 1972 Constraints and adjustments in British foreign policy, London : Allen & Unwin, 1972 Nationalism revolution and evolution in South-East Asia, Zug : Inter Doc., 1970 The Philippine claim to Sabah, Zug : Inter Documentation Company, 1968 Cambodia : the search for security, London : Pall Mall P, 1967
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