She completed her PhD in international security at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster.
[1] She specialises in security, foreign policy and democratic legitimacy; intervention and Britain's war powers.
[2] In a 2007 article for Spiked reviewing a book by John Laughland on the Trial of Slobodan Milošević, she described the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as practising "utter arbitrary lawlessness".
[3][4] McCormack is a member of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media (SPM).
[5] McCormack has tweeted that Syria's civil defence volunteers, the White Helmets are "basically Al Qaeda"[2] and "run by Jihadis".