Stephen R. Nagy

    Dr. Stephen R. Nagyis 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 Senior Fellow at the MacDonald Laurier Institute, Research Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, and Visiting Fellow at the Japan Institute for International Affairs.

    Dr. Nagy 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 tentative title for his forthcoming monograph is “Navigating U.S. China Strategic Competition: Japan as an International Adapter Middle Power.”  Link to Dr. Stephen R. Nagy website: https://nagystephen.com/

    By Stephen R. Nagy  Canada’s First Ministers’ recent joint declaration advocating trade diversification, and renewed China engagement, represents a strategic miscalculation that fails to address the structural constraints facing middle powers in today’s global economy, not to mention Canada’s Trump challenge.  While seeking…