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  NAGY, Stephen R.

   Professor

   Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
■ Academic Background
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Degree Acquisition		 Waseda University, Ph.D.
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Degree Acquisition		 Waseda University, M.A.
3. 1994/05
Degree Acquisition		 University of Calgary, Bachelor of Science
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■ Professional Background
1. 2026/08～ Senior Fellow, Conference of Defence Associations Institute (CDA Institute)Link
2. 2026/06～ Board member, Helsinki Geoeconomic SocietyLink
3. 2026/04 Center of Global Outreach (CGO) Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)Link
4. 2025/06～2025/09 Visiting Fellow, Connectivity, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs (HIIA)Link
5. 2025/07～2025/08 Invitited Distinguished Research Fellow, Corvinus Institute for Asia Studies, Corvinus University Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS)Link
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■ Present Specialized Fields
International relations, Politics, Area studies (Key Word：International relations of　the　Indo-Pacific, Sino-Japanese relations,　Japan-US-China relations,　Indo-Pacific regional integration、Economic Security, Japanese and Chinese Foreign Policy, Middle powers, Canadian Foreign Policy)  Link
■ Profile
Dr. Stephen R. Nagy is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the International Christian University in Tokyo, specializing in Indo-Pacific geopolitics and great power competition. With more than 100 academic and think tank publications including one monograph, two edited volumes, and one co-edited volume on Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific, he has established himself as a leading scholar and think tanker on China and the Indo-Pacific. He is a Senior Fellow and China Project Lead at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), a Visiting Fellow at the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA), and a Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He serves as Director of Policy Studies for the Yokosuka Council of Asia Pacific Studies (YCAPS), leading their Indo-Pacific Policy Dialogue Series. His newest book is Japan as a Middle Power State: Navigating Ideological and Systemic Divides, addresses themes central to middle power strategy in the region. He is also co-author, with Michael Rosenberg, of the forthcoming co-authored book How to Thrive in the New World Order — A Business Blueprint for an Age of Instability (2027), the co-editor for the edited volume Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific Construct (Nova Publications, 2024) with Dr. Indu Saxena, and a monograph on Chinese foreign policy called Asia for Asians or Asia for China? China’s Grand Strategy from Centrality to Authority (2027) which draws extensively on literature and primary sources in Chinese, Japanese, French and English.
■ Main Course Titles
Politics and International Relations in China, Regionalism in East Asia, Chinese Foreign Policy: From history to practice, Research Methodology and Design, Introduction to Foreign Policy
■ Books and Articles
1. Book Japan as an Adapter Middle Power: Navigating Ideological and Systemic Divides   (Single) 2026/11Link
2. Article "Middle Powers: Does Carney's Speech Foster Cooperation?"  pp.２６-３１ (Single) 2026/07Link
3. Book Navigating China’s Maritime Silk Road and Economic Coercion Institute of Security and Development Policy (ISDP) pp.126-33 (Collaboration) 2026/09Link
4. Article Strategic Choices for Middle Powers Navigating U.S.-China Competition: Assessing the constraints and opportunities facing secondary states navigating U.S.-China rivalry Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APFC)  (Single) 2026/02Link
5. Article Maritime Security in the Indo-PacificPreparing for Multiple Contingency Scenariosin the Taiwan Strait  32(October),pp.1-6 (Single) 2025/10Link
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■ Academic Conference Presentation
1. 2024/11/30 Canada Indo-Pacific Dreams: Relevance or Idealism? Foreign Policy at Critical Juncture (Asia Pacific Conference 2024 Bridging Divides for Global Recovery)Link
2. 2024/11/24 Building a maritime community for a shared future (The 5th Symposium on Global Maritime Cooperation and Ocean Governance)Link
3. 2024/08/03 Building Bridges, Connecting Continents (4 th MCC festival (Mathias Corvinus Collegium))Link
4. 2024/07/26 The Global South and the Liberal International Order: Conceptual Challenges and Structural Limitations (International Relations in a World of Flux: Understanding Continuity, Change and Contestation)Link
5. 2024/07/09 The Indo-Pacific and international order
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■ Lectures
1. 2025/10/30 "India and Japan: Two Asian Powers in a Changing Geopolitical Context"Link
2. 2025/06/11 Japan–Global South Relations III (South-East Asia)
3. 2025/04/25 Japan in the Trump Era: Trade, Supply Chain and Security
4. 2025/04/24 Japan-China Relations: Balancing engagement, resilience, and deterrence in a era of instability (on-line)
5. 2025/01/29 Navigating the Indo-Pacific: Security, Trade and Strategic AutonomyLink
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■ Academic Society Memberships
1. 2007/03～ International Studies Association
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■ Course Titles
1. Chinese Foreign Policy: From History to Practice
2. Politics and International Relations in China
3. Research Design and Methodology
4. Regionalism in East Asia
5. Introduction to Foreign Policy
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■ Teaching Experience
1. Graduate student research guidance（Waseda University, Institute for Asia-Pacific Studies）
2. International relations of Asia（Tsukuba University）
3. International relations of Japan, Japan China relations, Introduction to Japanese Studies, Research Methodolgy（Chinese University of Hong Kong）
4. International relations of Japan, Japan China relations, Introduction to Japanese Studies, Research Methodolgy（International Christian University）
■ Professional Achievements
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1. Stephen is a Senior Associate Professor in March 2017 and works at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the International Christian University since September 2014. Concurrently, he he is a Research fellow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) and a Visiting Fellow with the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA). Previously he was selected as a Distinguished Fellow for the Asia Pacific Foundation from 2017-2020. Prior to returning to Tokyo, he was an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from Dec. 2009 -Jan. 2014. He obtained his PhD from Waseda University, Japan in International Relations in Dec. 2008 and worked as a Research Associate at the Institute of Asia Pacific Studies at Waseda University from Oct. 2007 -Nov. 2009. His recent funded research projects are “Sino-Japanese Relations in the Wake of the 2012 Territorial Disputes: Investigating changes in Japanese Business’ trade and investment strategy in China”, and “Perceptions and drivers of Chinese view on Japanese and US Foreign Policy in the Region”. He is currently working on middle power approaches to great power competition in the Indo-Pacific. Stephen provides macro-level geopolitical analysis on trends in the region to businesses, governments and the media. He has published widely in peer-reviewed international journals such as China Perspectives, East Asia, the Journal of Asian Politics and History and the International Studies Review on topics related to trade, nationalism and China-Japan relations. He has also published in think tank and commercial outlets such as the China Economic Quarterly and the World Commerce Review on trade and political risk. In addition to writing in media and policy forms outlets in Japanese and English such as Diamond OnLine, SCMP, the East Asian Forum and Policy-net on issues facing the region, Dr. Stephen R. Nagy is a frequent political/ economic and security commentator on Japan-China-Korea-US relations in Japanese and international media outlet such as the New York Times, BBC, CNN, SCMP, The Japan Times, The National Post, cNBC, Al Jazeera, Channel News Asia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, etc.
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■ Research Topics, Funded Research, and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
1. 2022/04～2023/03  "Promoting Internationalism Internship Learning,"  (Key Word : Internationalism, Internship)
2. 2014/05～  Chinese perceptions of Japanese Foreign Policy in post Cold War Period  (Key Word : China, Japanese Foreign Policy, Perceptions, Cold War)
3. 2016/05～  Sino-Japanese relations in the 21st Century: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities  (Key Word : Sino-Japanese relations, territorial disputes, trade)
4. 2013/05～2014/01  Sino-Japanese Relations in the Wake of the 2012 Territorial Disputes: Investigating changes in Japanese Business’ trade and investment strategy in China  (Key Word : Sino-Japanese relations, territorial disputes, trade)
5. 2013/01～2014/01  Restoration after 3.11: pain, suffering, memory and trauma  (Key Word : 3/11, non-traditional security cooperation, regionalism)
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■ Websites
   Professor Nagy's Homepage
   Linkedin Profile
■ Works
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Hosting a conference at the Canadian Embassy, Tokyo on Middle Powers
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My first appearance on PrimeNews speaking on middle powers, Canada-US relations, Japan-US relations and China.
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Graduate students and I at the Canadian Embassy working together on a Free and Open Indo-Pacific vision report
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The most delicious contribution to the Community of Mankind for a Common Dessert Identity and Prosperity
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My graduate students in a post conference celebration
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■ Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research Researcher Number
40746682
■ researchmap "Other"
1. 2025/11 Nagy, S.R. 2025. "What the U.S.-China summit means for Japan As the two titans clash, Tokyo emerges as Washington’s indispensable ally, " IN The Japan Times. November 5th, 2025, (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/05/japan/us-china-meaning-for-japan/)Link
2. 2025/10 Nagu, S.R. 2025. "China is winning the global ‘narrative war’," in The Japan Times,. October 30th, 2025. (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/30/world/china-is-controlling-the-global-narrative/)Link
3. 2025/12 Nagy, S.R. 2025, "Too nice to fight, Canada’s vulnerability in the age of authoritarian coercion," in Inside Polcy, Macdonald Laurier Institute, December 10th, 2025, (https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/too-nice-to-fight-canadas-vulnerability-in-the-age-of-authoritarian-coercion-stephen-nagy-for-inside-policy/)Link
4. 2025/10 Nagy, S.R. "Canada returns to Asia—with pragmatism, not platitudes?," in The Hube, October 28th, 2025, (https://thehub.ca/2025/10/28/need-to-know-carneys-asian-trip/)Link
5. 2025/12 Nagy, S.R. 2025. "Survival in Trump, Xi and Putin’s ‘great power’ world Japan and other middle powers must help shape the new order — or risk becoming subject to it," in The Japan Times, December 12th, 2025 (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/11/world/trump-putin-and-xis-great-power-world/)Link
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■ External Researcher ID
orcID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1533-2927