On today's Global Exchange Podcast, Colin Robertson talks to Stewart Beck, Dr. Jeffrey Reeves, Dr. Stephen Nagy, and Dr. Jonathan Berkshire Miller about the concept of free and open Indo-Pacific and how Canada can belong.

Participants’ Bios:

- Stewart Beck is the President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (https://www.asiapacific.ca/about-us/senior-staff/stewart-beck)

- Dr. Jeffrey Reeves is Vice-President of Research for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (https://www.asiapacific.ca/about-us/senior-staff/jeffrey-reeves)

- Dr. Stephen Nagy is a fellow at CGAI and at the Asia Pacific Foundation, and is a Senior Associate Professor at the International Christian University, Tokyo (https://www.cgai.ca/stephen_nagy)

- Dr. Jonathan Berkshire Miller is a senior fellow with the Japan Institute of International Affairs, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. (https://www.jberkshiremiller.com/about.html)

Host Bio:

- Colin Robertson (host) is a former Canadian diplomat, now Vice President of and Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute

www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson

Read “Canada and the Indo-Pacific: ‘Diverse’ and ‘Inclusive’, Not ‘Free’ and ‘Open.’”: https://www.asiapacific.ca/sites/default/files/publication-pdf/CANADA%20AND%20THE%20INDO-PACIFIC%20%281%29.pdf

Read Dr. Nagy and Dr. Miller’s brief: “https://www.jiia-jic.jp/en/policybrief/pdf/PolicyBrief_Miller_Nagy_201029.pdf”

What Mr. Beck, Dr. Reeves, Dr. Nagy, and Dr. Miller are reading:

- Bill Buford, Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/20951/dirt-by-bill-buford/9780147530707

- Barack Obama, A Promised Land, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562882/a-promised-land-by-barack-obama/

- Susan Pennypacker and Jon Klassen, Pax, https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/childrens-pax

- Tobias S. Harris, The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan, https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-iconoclast/

- Yan Xuetong, Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers, https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190082/leadership-and-the-rise-of-great-powers

- Kent Calder, Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration, https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30855

Recording Date: 19 Nov 2020

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Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips