The Indo-Pacific Studies Center (IPSC) is honoured to announce the appointment of six Distinguished Fellows as part of its mission to promote independent, forward-thinking scholarship and high-impact policy engagement across the Indo-Pacific region.
These appointments recognize the outstanding achievements of leading academics, strategists, and practitioners whose work has shaped regional discourse on international relations, strategic affairs, maritime security, and Indo-Pacific diplomacy. As Distinguished Fellows, they will play an active role in advancing IPSC’s research priorities, public engagements, and multilateral dialogues in 2025 and beyond.
Dr. Stephen Nagy is 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.
His expertise is further recognized through affiliations with the Institute for Security and Development Policy, the East Asia Security Centre, and the Research Institute for Peace and Security.
From 2017-2020, he served as Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation and is currently senior fellow. 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 tentative title for his forthcoming monograph is “Navigating U.S. China Strategic Competition: Japan as an International Adapter Middle Power.”
View all fellows at: https://www.indo-pacificstudiescenter.org/ipsc-distinguished-fellows
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