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In his landmark address at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in January 2026, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called on the world’s middle powers to collaborate to shape a new international order – one that upholds multilateral institutions, preserves rules and limits the coercive leverage of great powers.
The evolving geopolitical dynamics of the Indo-Pacific have lent renewed urgency to this long-standing yet unresolved debate: do small and middle states possess meaningful agency in shaping regional order, or are they ultimately constrained by structural pressures imposed by great power competition?
Counterpoint Indo-Pacific is a webinar and policy brief series published by the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. The main objective of CIP is to bring together experts from across the region to discuss critical issues concerning the Indo-Pacific. Each issue will tackle one question from three to four different perspectives.
Speakers:
Sarah Teo, Assistant Professor, Regional Security Architecture Programme, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University
Kanti Bajpai, Visiting Professor of International Relations, Ashoka University; Emeritus Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Tomoo Kikuchi, Professor, the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies and Institute of Japan in the Global Economy, Waseda University
Moderator:
Denis Hew, Senior Research Fellow, Centre on Asia and Globalisation (CAG), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
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