ウォルター・ラカー(Walter Zeev Laqueur、1921年5月26日[1] - 2018年9月30日[1])は、アメリカ合衆国の歴史学者。
1921年、ドイツ帝国ブレスラウ(現在のポーランド・ヴロツワフ)のユダヤ系家庭に生まれた。1938年、イギリス統治下のパレスチナに移住。その後、イギリスを経てアメリカ合衆国に渡った。ブランダイス大学教授、ジョージタウン大学教授をつとめた。1994年までホロコースト研究で知られるウィーナー図書館現代史研究所所長を務めた。
単著
- Communism and Nationalism in the Middle East, (Routledge & K. Paul, 1956, 2nd ed., 1957, 3rd ed., 1961).
- 武田信一・二宮信親訳『中近東の内幕――ナセルへの道』(角川書店, 1958年)
- The Soviet Union and the Middle East, (Routledge & K. Paul, 1959).
- Young Germany: A History of the German Youth Movement, (Basic Books, 1962).
- 西村稔訳『ドイツ青年運動――ワンダーフォーゲルからナチズムへ』(人文書院, 1985年)
- Russia and Germany: A Century of Conflict, (Little, Brown, 1965).
- The Fate of the Revolution: Interpretations of Soviet History, (Macmillan, 1967).
- 中沢精次郎訳『革命の運命――ロシア革命史論』(未來社, 1973年)
- The Road to Jerusalem: the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1967, (Macmillan, 1968).
- The Struggle for the Middle East: the Soviet Union and the Middle East, 1958-68, (Routledge & K. Paul, 1969, rev. ed., 1972).
- Europe since Hitler, (Penguin, 1970, rev. ed., 1982).
- The Rebirth of Europe, (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970).
- Out of the Ruins of Europe, (Library Press, 1971).
- A History of Zionism, (Schocken Books, 1972).
- 高坂誠訳『ユダヤ人問題とシオニズムの歴史』(第三書館, 1987年/新版, 1994年)
- Confrontation: the Middle East and World Politics, (New York Times Book, 1974).
- Weimar: A Cultural History, 1918-1933, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974).
- 脇圭平・八田恭正・初宿正典訳『ワイマル文化を生きた人びと』(ミネルヴァ書房, 1980年)
- Guerrilla: A Historical and Critical Study, (Little, Brown, 1976).
- Terrorism, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977).
- A Continent Astray: Europe, 1970-1978, (Oxford University Press, 1979).
- The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth about Hitler's "Final Solution", (Little, Brown, 1980).
- The Political Psychology of Appeasement: Finlandization and Other Unpopular Essays, (Transaction Books, 1980).
- America, Europe, and the Soviet Union: Selected Essays, (Transaction Books, 1983).
- A World of Secrets: the Uses and Limits of Intelligence, (Basic Books, 1985).
- Germany Today: A Personal Report, (Little, Brown, 1985).
- 浦田誠親訳『ドイツ人――戦後40年で国民性は変わったか』(時事通信社, 1986年)
- The Age of Terrorism, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987).
- The Long Road to Freedom: Russia and Glasnost, (Unwin Hyman, 1989).
- Stalin: the Glasnost Revelations, (Unwin Hyman, 1990).
- 白須英子訳『スターリンとは何だったのか』(草思社, 1993年)
- Soviet Realities: Culture and olitics from Stalin to Gorbachev, (Transaction Publishers, 1990).
- Europe in Our Time: A History, 1945-1992, (Viking, 1992).
- 加藤秀治郎・金井和子・坂井一成・佐治孝夫・永山博之・藤井浩司訳『ヨーロッパ現代史――西欧・東欧・ロシア(1-3)』(芦書房, 1998年-2000年)
- Black Hundred: the Rise of the Extreme Right in Russia, (Harper Collins, 1993).
- 福田素子訳『ジリノフスキーがヒトラーになる日――日本を否定する新・極右集団の狙い』(徳間書店, 1994年)
- The Dream that Failed: Reflections on the Soviet Union, (Oxford University Press, 1994).
- Fascism: Past, Present, Future, (Oxford University Press, 1996).
- 柴田敬二訳『ファシズム――昨日・今日・明日』(刀水書房, 1997年)
- The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction, (Oxford University Press, 1999).
- 帆足真理子訳『大量殺戮兵器を持った狂信者たち――ニューテロリズムの衝撃』(朝日新聞社, 2002年)
- Generation Exodus: the Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany, (Brandeis University Press, 2001).
- No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-first Century, (Continuum, 2003).
- The Changing Face of Antisemitism: from Ancient Times to the Present Day, (Oxford University Press, 2006).
- The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent, (St. Martin's Press, 2007).
共著
- Breaking the Silence: the Secret Mission of Eduard Schulte, Who Brought the World News of the Final Solution, with Richard Breitman, (Bodley Head, 1986).
- Soviet Union 2000: Reform or Revolution?, with John Erickson, Paul A. Goble, Edward Luttwak, Gur Ofer, and Arthur Waldron, (Tauris, 1990).
- European Security in the 1990s: Deterrence and Defense after the INF Treaty, with Leon Sloss, (Plenum Press, 1990).
編著
- The Middle East in Transition: Studies in Contemporary History, (Routledge & K. Paul, 1958).
- The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict, co-edited with Barry Rubin, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969).
- A Dictionary of Politics, (Free Press, 1971, rev. red., 1973).
- Fascism, A Reader's Guide: Analyses, Interpretations, Bibliography, (University of California Press, 1976).
- The Terrorism Reader: A Historical Anthology, (Wildwood House, 1979).
- The Second World War: Essays in Military and Political History, (Sage, 1982).
- Looking Forward, Looking Back: A Decade of World Politics, (Praeger, 1983).
- The Pattern of Soviet Conduct in the Third World, (Praeger, 1983).
- The Holocaust Encyclopedia, (Yale University Press, 2001).
- 井上茂子・木畑和子・芝健介・長田浩彰・永岑三千輝訳『ホロコースト大事典』(柏書房, 2003年)
共編著
- The Soviet Cultural Scene, 1956-1957, co-edited with George Lichtheim, (Atlantic Books, 1958).
- The Future of Communist Society, co-edited with Leopold Labedz, (Praeger, 1962).
- Polycentrism: the New Factor in International Communism, co-edited with Leopold Labedz, (Praeger, 1962).
- The State of Soviet Studies, co-edited with Leopold Labedz, (MIT Press, 1965).
- 1914: the Coming of the First World War, co-edited with George L. Mosse, (Harper & Row, 1966).
- International Fascism 1920-1945, co-edited with George L. Mosse, (Harper & Row, 1966).
- Literature and Politics in the Twentieth Century, co-edited with George L. Mosse, (Harper & Row, 1967).
- Education and Social Structure in the Twentieth Century, co-edited with George L. Mosse, (Harper & Row, 1967).
- A Reader's Guide to Contemporary History, co-edited with Bernard Krikler, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972).
- Historians in Politics, co-edited with George L. Mosse, (Sage, 1974).
- The Human Rights Reader, co-edited with Barry Rubin, (Temple University Press, 1979, rev. ed., 1990).
- European Peace Movements and the Future of the Western Alliance, co-edited with Robert Hunter, (Transaction Books, 1985).
- America in the World, 1962-1987: A Strategic and Political Reader, co-edited with Brad Roberts, (St. Martin's Press, 1987).