Dr Stephen Nagy

Professor of Politics and International Studies at the International Christian University, specializing in Indo-Pacific geopolitics and great power competition. Concurrently, he holds strategic appointments as a Senior Fellow and China Project lead at the MacDonald Laurier Institute (MLI) and the Asia-Pacific Foundation (APF), and a Visiting Fellow at the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA). He serves as the director of policy studies for the Yokosuka Council of Asia Pacific Studies (YCAPS), spearheading their Indo-Pacific Policy Dialogue series. He is currently working on middle-power approaches to great-power competition in the Indo-Pacific. The title of his forthcoming book is “Japan as a Middle Power State: Navigating Ideological and Systemic Divides.”