Professor Gavan McCormack

Emeritus professor

ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

E: Gavan.McCormack@anu.edu.au

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Areas of expertise

Social And Cultural Anthropology 160104
Public Policy 160510
Comparative Government And Politics 160603
Asian History 210302
Political Theory And Political Philosophy 160609
Journalism Studies 190301
Combinatorics And Discrete Mathematics (Excl. Physical Combinatorics) 010104
Agricultural Hydrology (Drainage, Flooding, Irrigation, Quality, Etc.) 079901
Economic History 140203
International Economics And International Finance 140210
Law And Society 180119
International Relations 160607
Social And Cultural Geography 160403
Pacific History (Excl. New Zealand And Maori) 210313
Social Change 160805
Conservation And Biodiversity 050202
Other Studies In Human Society 1699

Publications

McCormack, G 2016, 'Troubled seas: Japan's Pacific and East China Sea domains and claims', in Mikyoung Kim (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 177-195.
McCormack, G 2015, 'The San Francisco System at sixty: The Okinawa angle', in Kimie Hara (ed.), The San Francisco System and Its Legacies: Continuation, transformation and historical reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific, Routledge, Abingdon United Kingdom, pp. 144-161.
Dower, J & McCormack, G 2014, Tenkanki no Nihon e : "pakkusu AmerikaÌ„na" ka "pakkusu Ajia" ka / Pax Americana versus Pax Asia: Japan in the San Francisco Treaty System, NHK Shuppan, Tokyo.
McCormack, G & Etsuko, U 2014, 'Okinawa's "Darkest Year" æ²–ç¸„ã?«ã?¨ã?£ã?¦ã€Œã?„ã?¡ã?°ã‚“æš—ã?„å¹´ã€?', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 11, no. 33, pp. Online.
McCormack, G 2014, 'Japan's "Positive Pacifism": Issues of Historical Memory in Contemporary Foreign Policy', Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 73-93.
McCormack, G 2014, 'The End of the Postwar? The Abe Government, Okinawa, and Yonaguni Island', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 12, no. 49, pp. 1-21.
McCormack, G 2014, 'Bitter Soup For Okinawans - The Governor's Year-End Betrayal', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 12, no. 1.
McCormack, G & Sakurai, K 2013, Okinawans Facing a Year of Trial: the Okinawa-Japan-US Relationship and the East China Sea, pp. 1-6pp.
McCormack, G 2013, 'Rebooting Asia: Conflicting Agendas', Arena, vol. 39/40, pp. 22-36.
McCormack, G 2013, 'A Nago Citizen's Opinion on the Henoko Marine Base Construction Project by Urashima Etsuko'.
McCormack, G 2013, 'Environmental Restoration of Former US Military Bases in Okinawa by Sakurai Kunitoshi'.
McCormack, G 2013, 'Japan's Client State (Zokkoku) Problem', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 11, no. 25, number 2, pp. 1-9.
McCormack, G 2013, 'Fukushima: An Assessment of the Quake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 10, no. 54, pp. online.
McCormack, G 2013, 'Introduction: The Continued Saga of the Henoko Base and Japan-US-Okinawa Relations', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 11, no. 47, no. 1, pp. 1-3.
McCormack, G 2013, 'If the Law is Observed, There Can be No Reclamation: A Mayoral Opinion Endorsed by Citizens of Nago and Okinawans by Sakurai Kunitoshi'.
McCormack, G 2013, 'Okinawans Facing a Year of Trial: the Okinawa-Japan-US Relationship and the East China Sea by Sakurai Kunitoshi'.
McCormack, G 2013, 'Withdrawal of US Marines Blocked by Japan in the 1970s'.
McCormack, G 2013, 'Much Ado over Small Islands: The Sino-Japanese Confrontation over Senkaku/Diaoyu', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 11, no. 21, pp. 15-36.
McCormack, G 2013, Burchett In Australian Media, pp. 31-36.
McCormack, G & Norimatsu, S 2012, 'Okinawa no ikari - Nichibei e no teiko, revised Japanese translation of Resistant Islands - Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States', in Gavin McCormack and Satoko Oka Norimatsu (ed.), Okinawa no ikari - Nichibei e no teiko, revised Japanese translation of Resistant Islands - Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States, Horitsu Bunkasha, Kyoto, p. 265.
McCormack, G 2012, Servile State Japan, pp. 24-28.
McCormack, G & Urashima, E 2012, Okinawa's Nature Groaning - Let's Turn Mt Kushi into a Forest of Life. On the Sixtieth Anniversary of the San Francisco Treaty and the Fortieth Anniversary of Okinawa's Reversion to Japan (Introduction), pp. 1-4pp.
McCormack, G 2012, There is no longer an opposition movement but a prefecture in resistance, saying "No", pp. 2pp.
McCormack, G 2012, Nihon wa itsu made Beikoku no zokkoku ni amanjitite iru no ka.
McCormack, G & Norimatsu, S 2012, Resistant Islands: Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., Lanham, Maryland, USA.
McCormack, G & Dower, J 2012, Perspectives on Post-Quake Japan and the World: A Look ahead at 2012.
McCormack, G & Sakurai, K 2012, 'The Henoko Assessment Does Not Pass'.
McCormack, G 2011, 'Building the Next Fukushimas', in Jeff Kingston (ed.), Tsunami: Japan's Post-Fukushima Future; essays on the many aftershocks of Japan's nuclear nightmare, Slate Group, Online, pp. 230-239.
McCormack, G 2011, 'The Park Chung Hee Era and the Genesis of Trans-Border Civil Society in East Asia', in HYUNG-A KIM and CLARK W. SORENSEN (ed.), Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979; Development, Political Thought, Democracy, & Cultural Influence, University of Washington Press, Seattle USA, pp. 187-204.
McCormack, G 2010, 'Japan as a Plutonium Super-power', in KOLYA ABRAMSKY (ed.), Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution:Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World, AK Press Edinburgh Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 372-388.
McCormack, G 2010, The Travails of a Client State: An Okinawan Angle on the 50th Anniversary of the US-Japan Security Treaty, pp. 1-8pp.
McCormack, G 2010, 'Ampo's Troubled 50th: Hatoyama's Abortive Rebellion, Okinawa's Mounting Resistance and the US-Japan Relationship', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 8, no. 22, pp. 1-15.
McCormack, G 2010, Ampo at 50: The Faltering US-Japan Relationship.
McCormack, G 2010, 'US Japan Security Treaty at 50: Entering Uncharted Water', Clingendael Asia Studies.
McCormack, G 2009, 'North Korea and the Birth Pangs of a New Northeast Asian Order', in Sonia Ryang (ed.), North Korea: Toward a Better Understanding, Lexington Books, Lanham, pp. 23-39.
McCormack, G 2009, 'Okinawa's Turbulent 400 Years', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 2009, no. January, pp. 1-7.
McCormack, G 2009, 'Opting for the "irrational": Tokyo brushes aside Okinawan court order to end Awase wetlands reclamation project', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 2009, no. 4 (1/26/2010), pp. 1-7.
McCormack, G & Setsuko, k 2008, 'Yokohama and Seoul: dealing with crimes of state in Japan and South Korea', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, no. Jan 2008, pp. 1-5.
McCormack, G 2008, 'August Nuclear Reflections', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 4, no. 2008, pp. 1-7.
McCormack, G 2008, 'The confrontation between North Korea and the US: Soprano vs. Baritone', in Hyung -Kook Kim, Myongsob Kim and Amitav Acharya (ed.), Northeast Asia and the Two Koreas: Metastability, Security, and Community, Yonsei University Press, Seoul, Korea, pp. 223-256.
McCormack, G 2008, 'North Korea: Birth Pangs of a New North East Asian Order', Arena, vol. 29, no. 30, pp. 81-100.
McCormack, G 2008, 'The Comfort Women Issue, the Asian Women's Fund and the Digital Museum -by Wada Haruki, translated and introduced by Gavan McCormack'.
McCormack, G, Heenan, T, Kiernan, B et al 2008, 'Manne of influence: Wilfred Burchett and Australia's Long Cold War', On Line opinion, vol. 2008, no. 4 July, pp. 1-3.
McCormack, G 2008, 'Australia Facing Northeast Asia: Thoughts on Prime Minister Rudd's Inaugural Visit to Japan', <>.
McCormack, G 2008, 'Okinawa says "No" to US-Japan base Plan (Translation of Matsumoto Tsuyoshi, Okinawa kengisen yoto sanpai no tsugeki)'.
McCormack, G 2008, 'Abe and Okinawa: Collision Course?', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 2007, no. September, pp. 1-9.
McCormack, G 2008, 'Asia's New Axis?', YaleGlobal Online, vol. 2008, no. April, pp. None.
McCormack, G 2008, Zokkoku - Amerika no hoyo to Ajia de no koritsu, (revised and expanded Japanese translation of Client State - Japan in the American Embrace), Gaifusha, Tokyo.
McCormack, G 2008, 'Korea at 60', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 2008, no. February, p. 3.
McCormack, G 2008, 'L'Accouchment D'un Nouvel Ordre Politique en Asie du Nord-Est', Nouvelles Fondations, no. 9, pp. 116-125.
McCormack, G 2008, '"Conservatism" and "Nationalism". The Japan Puzzle', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 2008, no. June, pp. 1-3.
McCormack, G 2008, How we can influence Asia, The Canberra Times .
McCormack, G 2008, Korean Elections: Against the Current?, Kyunghyang sinmun.
McCormack, G 2008, Lee's Ambiguity on North Koreaâ??s Nuclear Policy, Kyunghyang sinmun, .
McCormack, G 2008, Mad Cows , Mad Humans, Kyunghyang Sinmun.
McCormack, G 2008, North Korea and the Chimera in the Syrian Desert, Kyunghyang Sinmun.
McCormack, G 2008, Sadae in the 21st century, Kyunghyang sinmun.
McCormack, G 2008, The Chimera of GDP, Kyunghyang sinmun, .
McCormack, G 2007, 'Japan and North Korea - The Quest for Normalcy', in Hazel Smith (ed.), Reconstituting Korean security: A Policy primer, United Nations University Press, Japan, pp. 162-181.
McCormack, G 2007, 'A Deal in Beijing', in Babara Nelson and Robin Jeffrey (ed.), Capturing the Year 2007: Writings from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, pp. 133-143.
McCormack, G 2007, 'Modernity, water, and the environment in Japan', in William M. Tsutsui (ed.), A Companion to Japanese History, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, pp. 443-459pp.
McCormack, G 2007, 'l' impero del sole tra orgoglio e dipendenza', Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, vol. 5, pp. 187-198.
McCormack, G 2007, 'Fitting Okinawa into Japan the Beautiful country', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 2007, no. May, pp. 1-8.
McCormack, G 2007, 'Japan as a Plutonium Superpower', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 2007, no. December, pp. 1-15.
McCormack, G 2007, 'Foreword: Rebel Journalism: the writings of Wilfred Burchett', in George Burchett and Nick shimmin (ed.), Rebel Journalism: the writings of Wilfred Burchett, Cambridge University Press, melbourne, pp. XV-XV111.
McCormack, G 2007, Client State: Japan in the American Embrace, Verso Books, London and New York.
McCormack, G 2007, 'Community and Identity in Northeast Asia: 1930s and Today', East Asian History, vol. 30, no. December 2005, pp. 107-118.
McCormack, G 2007, Interview - Monthly Op-Ed Essay Series, Monthly Op-Ed Essay Series.
McCormack, G 2007, Japan as a nuclear superstate, No 1 Shimbun .
McCormack, G 2006, 'Difficult neighbors: Japan and North Korea', in Gi-Wook Shin, Soon-Won Park and Daqing Yang (ed.), Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: the Korean experience, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 154-172.
McCormack, G 2006, 'Criminal States: Soprano vs. Baritone - North Korea and the United States', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 2006, p. 1.
McCormack, G 2006, 'North Korea and the US Strategic decision', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 2006, p. 1.
McCormack, G 2006, '"The North Korean Problem", Japan and the US: The Politics of Hypocrisy', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 2006, p. 1.
McCormack, G 2006, 'The Okinawan Election and resistance to Japan's Military First Politics', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 2006, p. 1.
McCormack, G & haruki, W 2006, 'A reculons Toujours: Histoire peu commune de quinze annees de negociations entre le japon et la coree du nord', Recherches Internationales, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 111-133.
McCormack, G 2006, Target North Korea, Korean translation under the title Beomjoegukga, Bukhan Geurigo Miguk, Icarus Media, Seoul.
McCormack, G, Manabu, S & Etsuko, U 2006, 'The Nago Mayoral Elections and Okinawa Search for a Way Beyond Bases and Dependence', The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 16, no. February 2006, pp. 1-8.
McCormack, G 2006, 'The North Korea Problem', Japan and the US: The Politics of Hypocrisy, pp. 1-10pp.
McCormack, G 2006, Japan's Political and Constitutional Crossroads, pp. 1-17pp.
McCormack, G & Wada, H 2006, 'Forever stepping back: the strange record of 15 years of negotiation between Japan and North Korea', in John Feffer (ed.), The Future of US-Korean Relations: The imbalance of power, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxford, pp. 81-100.
McCormack, G 2005, 'Tide Change in Saga', Kyoto Journal, vol. 59, pp. 70-74.
McCormack, G 2005, 'Ariake-kai Isahaya-wan (Isahaya Bay in the Ariake Sea)', in Nanyan Guo and Gavan McCormack (ed.), Ogasawara shoto - Ajia Taiheiyo kara mita kankyo bunka (The Ogasawara Islands - Asia-Pacific perspectives on the Culture of the Environment), Heibonsha, Japan, pp. 135-152.
McCormack, G, ed., 2005, Ogasawara shoto - Ajia Taiheiyo kara mita kankyo bunka (ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½??ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ô‹¬?ï¿½?ï¿½ï¿½?ï¿½ï¿½?ï¿½ï¿½Ï¦ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½?Æ??ï¿½??ï¿½ï¿½?Æ??ï¿½?ï¿½??ï¿½??ï¿½?ï¿½The Ogasawara Islands - Asia-Pacific perspectives on the culture of the environment), , Heibonsha, Japan.
Guo, N & McCormack, G 2005, 'Ogasawara shoto - Takarajima no seicho to hen-i (Growth and Transformation of Japans Treasure Islands, Ogasawara)', in Nanyan Guo and Gavan McCormack (ed.), Ogasawara shoto - Ajia Taiheiyo kara mita kankyo bunka (The Ogasawara Islands - Asia-Pacific perspectives on the Culture of the Environment), Heibonsha, Japan, pp. 22-52.
McCormack, G 2004, Target North Korea, Japanese translation, Heibonsha, Tokyo.
McCormack, G 2004, 'Busshu no tenohira de odoru Koizumi no Nihon (Boots, Billions and Blood: Koizumis Japan in Bushs World)', in TUP (Translators United for Peace) (ed.), Sekai wa kaerareru (The World can be Changed), Nanatsumori shokan, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 218-228.
McCormack, G 2004, 'Water, Development, and Nature in Korea: Struggling towards Sustainability', Asian Cultural Studies, vol. 30, pp. 111-126.
McCormack, G 2004, 'Korea: Unfinished Business of the Twentieth Century', Asian Cultural Studies, vol. 13 Special Issue, pp. 83-86.
Box, M & McCormack, G 2004, 'Terror in Japan: The Red Army (1969-2001) and Aum Supreme Truth (1987-2000)', Critical Asian Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 91-112.
McCormack, G 2004, Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe, Random House Australia, NSW, Australia.
McCormack, G 2003, 'Okinawa and the structure of dependence', in Glenn D Hook and Richard Siddle (ed.), Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity, Routledge Curzon, London and New York, pp. 93-113.
McCormack, G 2003, The evil empire that wants to come in from the cold, pp. 9 and 11.
McCormack, G 2003, 'Pushed to the Brink', The Diplomat, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 12-13.
McCormack, G 2003, 'Nihon ni okeru seigi to kempo (Justice and the Constitution in Japan)', in Social Science Institute, International Christian University and Social Justice (ed.), Nihon ni okeru seigi: kuni-naigai ni okeru shomondai (Justice in Japan: Various Problems, Domestic and Overseas), Sophia University, Ochanomizu shobo, Tokyo, pp. 15-33.
McCormack, G 2003, 'Seoul-centring Korea', Eureka Street, vol. 13, no. 3 April, pp. 39-44.
McCormack, G 2003, 'Reflections on Modern Japanese History in the Context of the Concept of Genocide', in Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan (ed.), The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 265-286.
McCormack, G 2003, Pyongyang Nuclear Puzzle, pp. 111-112pp.
McCormack, G 2003, Putting Pressure on Rogues, pp. 4pp.
McCormack, G 2003, North Korea: Coming in From the Cold?, tba.
McCormack, G 2002, 'Breaking the iron triangle', New Left Review, vol. 13, pp. 5-23.
McCormack, G 2002, '21 seiki Nihon no shakai wa doko e mukao to suru no ka', in Shi-cho-son shinpojiumu jikko iinkai Committee (ed.), Gabamento kara gabanansu e (From Government to Governance), Kojinsha, Tokyo, pp. 19-53.
McCormack, G 2002, 'Nihon no afugan shuppei', Sekai, vol. 695 (December 2001), pp. 111-116.
McCormack, G 2002, 'Japans Afghan Expedition', Eureka Street, vol. 11, no. 10 (December 2001), pp. 25-31.
McCormack, G 2002, 'New Tunes for an Old Song: Nationalism and Identity in Post-Cold War Japan', in Roy Starrs (ed.), Nations Under Siege: Globalization and Nationalism in Asia, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK and New York, USA, pp. 137-168.
McCormack, G 2002, 'Things more important than football? Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup', in John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter (ed.), Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, USA and Canada, pp. 29-42.
McCormack, G 2002, 'Ilbon-ui chor-ui samgak kugo (The Japanese Iron Triangle)', Changjak gwa Bipyeong (Creation and Criticism), vol. 116, pp. 68-85.
McCormack, G 2002, 'North Korea in the Vice', New Left Review, vol. 18, pp. 5-27.
McCormack, G 2001, The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence, M E Sharpe Inc, New York and London.
McCormack, G 2001, 'Book review: Competing Capitalisms: Australia, Japan and Economic Competition in Asia-Pacific, by M Beeson', Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 125-129.
McCormack, G 2001, 'Chugoku mizu shigen kaihatsu no doko to sono kankyo eikyo', Kankyo to Kogai, vol. February, pp. 9-17.
McCormack, G 2001, 'Japan's Houdini Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix', Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. tba, pp. 138-144.
Guo, N & McCormack, G 2001, 'Coming to terms with nature: development dilemmas on the Ogasawara Islands', Japan Forum, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 177-193.
Hook, G & McCormack, G 2001, Japans Contested Constitution - documents and analysis, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York.
McCormack, G & Guo, N 2001, 'Ogasawara - Dokutoku na shima kara heibon na shima e?', Misuzu, vol. 43, no. 4 (No. 481) April, pp. 9-22.
McCormack, G 2001, 'Water Margins: Competing Paradigms in China', Critical Asian Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 5-30.
McCormack, G 2001, Reflections on Modern Japanese History in the Context of the Concept of Genocide, Edwin O Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
McCormack, G 2000, 'Flight from the Violent 20th Century', Japanese Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 5-14.
McCormack, G 2000, 'Nationalism and Identity in Post-Cold War Japan', Global Change, Peace & Security, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 249-265.
McCormack, G 2000, 'Beginning and Ending the Cold War in East Asia', in unknown (ed.), Handbook of Global International Policy, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, USA, pp. 103-117.
McCormack, G 2000, 'The Japanese Movement of Correct History', in Mark Seldon and Laura Hein (eds.), Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany and the United States, M E Sharpe Inc, New York, USA, pp. 55-73.

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