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 Japan confronts its gravest leadership crisis since the 1860s. The working-age population shrinks by approximately 500,000 annually, threatening economic foundations. Japan ranks 116th out of 146 countries in the World Economic Forum’s 2023 Global Gender Gap Report, with women…
By Stephen R. Nagy As Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party prepares to select its next president. By extension, whoever wins will become Japan’s prime minister. The contest reveals more about the party’s structural challenges than its policy vision. The frontrunners, Takaichi Sanae and Koizumi…
By Stephen R. Nagy The imposition of tariffs by the Trump administration on both Canadian and Indian exports presents the governments in Ottawa and New Delhi with a fundamental test of their diplomatic maturity, strategic patience and long-term vision for their foreign policy, one…
By Stephen R. Nagy Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru’s decision to remain in office following his coalition’s historic electoral rebuke risks plunging Japan back into the debilitating cycle of revolving-door leadership that weakened the nation’s international standing for nearly a decade. The parallels to…
Why Defection Undermines Coalition Against U.S. Economic Pressure By Stephen R. Nagy The Trump 2.0 administration has exposed a fundamental weakness in the international system, namely the inability of traditional U.S. allies to effectively coordinate responses to economic coercion including tariffs from their…
Why PM Carney must Steer Canadians away from Anti-American/ Anti-Trump Sentiment By Stephen R. Nagy President Donald Trump’s tariffs and suggestions that Canada should relinquish its sovereignty and become the United States 51st state have left Canadians feeling hurt, insulted, aggrieved, wounded and…
By Stephen R. Nagy Canada’s long standing post-WW2 foreign policy framework was designed for a world in which multilateralism was the common currency for international relations. The order is gone and Canada finds itself in the integrum between the post-WW2 international order and…
By Stephen R. Nagy Japan’s post-war foreign policy has been built on four pillars: the Japan-U.S. security alliance, economic integration with the Indo-Pacific (Asia), stable and well governed sea lines of communication (SLOCs), and energy security through Middle Eastern partnerships including Iran. The U.S.-Israeli…