Leonard Binder (1927-2015) was an American political scientist. He was a distinguished professor of political science and the former director of the Near East Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Binder was also Chair of the Political Science Departments of UCLA and the University of Chicago.Faculty profile , UCLA International Institute, Retrieved 2010-07-14. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002
