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Gavan McCormack

Gavan McCormack is an emeritus professor of the Australian National University and a coordinator of The Asia-Pacific Journal. His most recent book, co-authored with Satoko Oka Norimatsu, is Resistant Islands: Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States, Rowman and Littlefield, July 2012 (Japanese, Korean, and Chinese translations to be published early in 2013.) He is the author of Client State: Japan in the American Embrace (New York, 2007, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing 2008) and Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe, 2004 (Seoul 2006).

Articles

ID	Author	Title
3908	Gavan McCormack, Sakurai Kunitoshi	Okinawans Facing a Year of Trial: the Okinawa-Japan-US Relationship and the East China Sea 沖縄が直面する試練の年ー沖日米関係と東シナ海
3873	Gavan McCormack	Abe Days Are Here Again: Japan in the World　再び安倍の天下−−世界の中での日本
3837	Gavan McCormack	Yonaguni: Dilemmas of a Frontier Island in the East China Sea　　与那国−−東シナ海に浮かぶ国境の島の板挟み状態
3828	Gavan McCormack, Satoko NORIMATSU	Ryukyu/Okinawa, From Disposal to Resistance　　琉球／沖縄、処分から抵抗へ
3821	Gavan McCormack	Troubled Seas: Japan’s Pacific and East China Sea Domains (and Claims)　　荒れる海−−太平洋・東シナ海の日本海域（および権利主張）
3753	Gavan McCormack, Urashima Etsuko	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　　沖繩の自然は喘ぐ　−−　久志山を命の林へ。サンフランシスコ条約６０周年、沖縄の日本復帰４０周年
3748	Gavan McCormack	North Korea's 100th – Celebrations Gone Awry　　北朝鮮の１００周年−−不首尾に終わった祝典
3732	Gavan McCormack	North Korea's 100th – To Celebrate or To Surrender?　　北朝鮮の１００年記念−−祝典か降伏か
3694	Gavan McCormack	Mage – Japan’s Island Beyond the Reach of the Law　　馬毛−−法律の及ぶ範囲外の島
3673	Gavan McCormack, Sakurai Kunitoshi, Urashima Etsuko	Okinawa, New Year 2012: Tokyo’s Year End Surprise Attack　　未明の「奇襲」、評価書「置き去り」
3611	Gavan McCormack, Satoko NORIMATSU	Discordant Visitors: Japanese and Okinawan Messages to the US　　諧調に乱れあり−−米国へ日本政府と沖縄の伝えるもの
3532	Gavan McCormack	Deception and Diplomacy: The US, Japan, and Okinawa　　欺瞞と外交−−アメリカ、日本、沖縄 •Japanese text available
3517	Gavan McCormack	Hubris Punished: Japan as Nuclear State　　驕れる者は久しからず−−核国家としての日本
3492	Gavan McCormack	Contested Waters - Contested Texts: Storm over Korea's West Sea　　紛争の海域　紛争のテクスト−−朝鮮西海上の嵐
3468	Gavan McCormack, Mark Selden, Satoko NORIMATSU	New Year 2011, Okinawa and the Future of East Asia　　2011年年明け、沖繩、東アジアの将来
3464	Gavan McCormack	Small Islands – Big Problem: Senkaku/Diaoyu and the Weight of History and Geography in China-Japan Relations　　小さな諸島−大きな問題−−尖閣／釣魚と日中関係における歴史と地理の重さ •Japanese, Korean and Chinese texts available
3443	Gavan McCormack	The Battle of Okinawa 2010: Japan-US Relations at a Crossroad　　2010年沖縄戦−−分岐点に立つ日米関係
3435	Gavan McCormack	Ideas, Identity and Ideology in Contemporary Japan: The Sato Masaru Phenomenon　現代日本における思考形態−−佐藤優現象
3407	Gavan McCormack	The US-Japan 'Alliance', Okinawa, and Three Looming Elections　　日米「同盟」、沖繩、目前に迫る三つの選挙
3367	Gavan McCormack	Ampo's Troubled 50th: Hatoyama's Abortive Rebellion, Okinawa's Mounting Resistance and the US-Japan Relationship - Part 3　　苦渋の安保改正５０年—鳩山反撃の失敗、沖繩で高まる反抗運動、日米関係　第３部 [Macedonian Translation Available]
3366	Gavan McCormack	Ampo's Troubled 50th: Hatoyama's Abortive Rebellion, Okinawa's Mounting Resistance and the US-Japan Relationship - Part 2　　苦渋の安保改正５０年—鳩山反撃の失敗、沖繩で高まる反抗運動、日米関係　第２部
3365	Gavan McCormack	Ampo's Troubled 50th: Hatoyama's Abortive Rebellion, Okinawa's Mounting Resistance and the US-Japan Relationship - Part 1　　苦渋の安保改正５０年—鳩山反撃の失敗、沖繩で高まる反抗運動、日米関係　第１部
3317	Gavan McCormack	The Travails of a Client State: An Okinawan Angle on the 50th Anniversary of the US-Japan Security Treaty　属国の苦悩−−日米安全保障条約五〇周年の沖繩の一視点
3291	Gavan McCormack, Urashima Etsuko	Electing a Town Mayor in Okinawa: Report from the Nago Trenches [Updated] 　沖縄市長選ーー名護市より　[Korean translation available]
3250	Gavan McCormack	The Battle of Okinawa 2009: Obama vs Hatoyama [Japanese translation]
3238	Gavan McCormack	The Road to Copenhagen [Korean and Japanese translations available]
3188	Gavan McCormack	History Too Long Denied: Japan's Unresolved Colonial Past and Today's North Korea Problem
3121	Gavan McCormack	Security Council Condemnation of North Korean "UFO" Deepens Korean Crisis
3059	Gavan McCormack	Hillary in Japan - The Enforcer
3056	Gavan McCormack, Kim Dong-choon	Grappling with Cold War History: Korea's Embattled Truth and Reconciliation Commission
3011	Gavan McCormack	Okinawa's Turbulent 400 Years [Japanese text available]
2983	Gavan McCormack	Facing the Past: War and Historical Memory in Japan and Korea [Korean text available]
2920	Gavan McCormack	The Okinawan Alternative to Japan's Dependent Militarism [Japanese translation available]
2869	Gavan McCormack	Korea at 60 [Korean translation available]
2849	Gavan McCormack	August Nuclear Thoughts: the New Proliferation (Available in Korean)
2825	Gavan McCormack, T Matsumoto	Okinawa Says "No" to US-Japan Base Plan
2786	Gavan McCormack	"Conservatism" and "Nationalism". The Japan Puzzle
2602	Gavan McCormack	Japan as a Plutonium Superpower
2555	Gavan McCormack	North Korea and the Birth Pangs of a New Northeast Asian Order
2512	Gavan McCormack	Abe and Okinawa: Collision Course?
2488	Gavan McCormack	Japan as a Nuclear State
2437	Gavan McCormack	Fitting Okinawa into Japan the "Beautiful Country"
2354	Gavan McCormack	A Denuclearization Deal in Beijing: The Prospect of Ending the 20th Century in East Asia
2339	Gavan McCormack, Yonhap News , S Kamiya	Yokohama and Seoul: Dealing With Crimes of State in Japan and South Korea
2275	Gavan McCormack	The Okinawan Election and Resistance to Japan's Military First Politics
2189	Gavan McCormack	Criminal States: Soprano vs. Baritone - North Korea and the US
2175	Gavan McCormack, David McNeill, John Junkerman	Japan's Political and Constitutional Crossroads
2158	Gavan McCormack	North Korea Coming in from the cold?
2132	Gavan McCormack	Pyongyang Waiting for the Spring
2123	Gavan McCormack	War and Japan's Memory Wars: the media and the globalization of consciousness
2111	Gavan McCormack	Koizumi's Japan in Bush's World: After 9/11
2108	Gavan McCormack	Japan's Sixtieth
2103	Gavan McCormack	The Umbrella and the Mushroom: Realism and Extremism on North Korea
2096	Gavan McCormack	A North Korean Visitor to the White House
2095	Gavan McCormack	Making Sense of the Korean Crisis: An Interview
2088	Gavan McCormack	Okinawa and the Revamped US-Japan Alliance
1949	Gavan McCormack	Disputed Bones: Japan, North Korea and the 'Nature' Controversy
1925	Gavan McCormack	North Korea and the US "Strategic Decision"
1924	Gavan McCormack	Koizumi's Kingdom of Illusion
1909	Gavan McCormack	"The North Korean Problem", Japan and the US: The Politics of Hypocrisy
1894	Wada Haruki, Gavan McCormack	The Strange Record of 15 Years of Japan-North Korea Negotiations
1863	Gavan McCormack	Looking Back at the Occupation -- The US and Japan over 60 Years
1779	Gavan McCormack	Sunshine, Containment, War: Korean Options
1681	Gavan McCormack	Tide Change in Saga, Japan
1592	Gavan McCormack, M Sato, Etsuko Urashima	The Nago Mayoral Election and Okinawa s Search for a Way Beyond Bases and Dependence
1591	Gavan McCormack	Community and Identity in Northeast Asia: 1930s and Today
1570	Gavan McCormack, Meredith Box	Terror in Japan
1559	Yoshinaga Fusako, Gavan McCormack	Minamata: The Irresponsibility of the Japanese State

What's Hot

ID	Author	Title
178	Gavan McCormack	Fukushima: An Assessment of the Quake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown 福島—地震、津波、そしてメルトダウンの評価
127	Gavan McCormack	Doug Bandow: Give Okinawa Back To The Okinawans　　沖縄を沖縄人に返還せよ