Nowadays, Gavan McCormack is a topic that arouses the interest of many people around the world. Over time, Gavan McCormack has acquired great relevance in various fields, from politics to science, including culture and society in general. Its impact has been so significant that it has generated debates, controversies and deep reflections among experts and ordinary citizens alike. In this article, we will analyze the role that Gavan McCormack currently plays and explore its implications in different contexts.
Chang Tso-lin, the Mukden Military Clique, and Japan, 1920–1928: The Development and interrelationships of Chinese warlordism and Japanese imperialism in northeast China (1974)
McCormack's main research interest is "modern Japanese (and East Asian) political, intellectual, and environmental history". He has published widely in both academic and popular journals on the "liberation" struggles in South East Asia. In more recent times he has become more interested in environmental issues and in 1996 he published The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence, in which he attacked Japanese economic success as a mirage based on environmental exploitation that posed the single greatest threat to stability in the region. He has been a critic of the American government in general and has claimed that North Korea's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons are justified by American belligerence.
Korea North and South, co-edited with Mark Selden, New York, Monthly Review Press, 1978, 240 pp.
Twice Victims: Koreans at Hiroshima, edited and introduced, jointly translated from Japanese with Kang Ok Su, Tokyo, The Korean Peace Committee in Japan, 1981, 44 pp.
Cold War Hot War: An Australian Perspective on the Korean War, Sydney, Hale and Iremonger, 1983; 191 pp ISBN0-86806-082-8, ISBN0-86806-083-6 (pbk).
The Price of Affluence: Dilemmas of Contemporary Japan, translator-in-chief and editor of Rokuro Hidaka's Sengo Shiso o Kangaeru (Tokyo), Iwanami, 1980). Tokyo and New York, Kodansha International, 1984
Japanese Society: Ins and Outs in Showa 60, translated and edited by Gavan McCormack and Yoshio Sugimoto, Papers of the Japanese Studies Centre, Melbourne, No. 8, December 1986, 30 pp.
Democracy in Contemporary Japan, co-edited with Yoshio Sugimoto, Sydney, Hale and Iremonger, and New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1986, 272 pp ISBN0-87332-397-1, ISBN0-87332-398-X (pbk).
The Japanese Trajectory: Modernization and Beyond, co-edited with Yoshio Sugimoto. Cambridge University Press, 1988, 300 pp ISBN0-521-34515-4.
Bonsai Australia Banzai: Multifunctionpolis and the Making of a Special Relationship with Japan, Gavan McCormack, ed., Pluto Press, Sydney, 1991, 228pp.
The Burma-Thailand Railway: memory and history, (co-edited with Hank Nelson), ed, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1993, 175pp ISBN9781863734233.
Peace and Regional Security in the Asia-Pacific: A Japanese Proposal, translated, edited and introduced, Peace Research Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU, Working Paper No 158, September 1995, 59pp.
Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe, New York, Nation Books, and Sydney, Random House Australia, 2004. 228 pp. ISBN1-56025-557-9.
Articles and book chapters
"Some Radical Utopian Movements in Early Europe and China" in Afrasian, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1969, pp. 16–22.
Reproduced in part in McCormack, Gavin (1973), "The student left in Japan", in Livingston, Jon; Oldfather, Felicia; Moore, Joe (eds.), The Japan Reader, volume 2, Pantheon, pp. 552–556, ISBN9780394706689.
"The Tokyo-Taipei-Seoul Nexus" (with Jon Halliday) in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.2, No.1, Spring 1972, pp. 36–55.
"The Politics of Korean Studies in Europe" in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.7, No.3, 1977, pp. 387–392.
"The South Korean Phenomenon" in Australian Outlook, published by the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Vol.32, No.3, December 1978, pp. 262–278.
"The Kampuchean Revolution, 1975–1978, The Problem of Knowing the Truth" in Arena (Melbourne), No.53, September 1979, pp. 40–82.
Revised and expanded version in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.10, 1–2, 1980, pp. 75–118.
"Kampuchea: Nationalism, Intervention, Revolution", Working Paper No.11, Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1982
"Cambodia: Rationale for a Rural Policy" (review article) in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.11, No.2, 1981, pp. 231–236.
"Korea North and South" in Arena (Melbourne), 56, pp. 34–40, November 1980.
"Letter from Pyongyang" in Far Eastern Economic Review, 15 August 1980.
"1930's Japan: Fascist?" in Social Analysis (Adelaide), No.5/6 December 1980, pp. 125–43, also in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 14, 2, April–June 1982, pp. 20–33.
"North Korea: Kimilsungism – Path to Socialism?" in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 13, 4, October–December 1981, pp. 50–61.
"Yellow Rain" (review article discussing Grant Evans' The Yellow Rainmakers: Are Chemical Weapons being used in Southeast Asia? in Arena, No.66, 1984, pp. 196–205).