If the West Is Collapsing, What Comes Next in 2026? - Prof. Jiang Xueqin

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Modern societies assume that the world they inherited will continue more or less unchanged. That institutions will adapt, crises will be managed, and the future will resemble the past. In this lecture, Jiang Xueqin questions that assumption. Jiang argues that the West is not simply experiencing political turbulence or temporary instability, but a deeper civilisational shift. The conditions that once sustained Western power — economic energy, strategic confidence, social cohesion, and openness — are weakening at the same time. What appears as confusion, polarisation, or permanent crisis is, in his view, the outward sign of a system losing its ability to orient itself toward the future. Rather than predicting collapse as a single event, Jiang describes a process of erosion: elites becoming insulated from reality, narratives replacing strategy, and institutions responding to decline by narrowing rather than renewing themselves. As the global order moves toward a multipolar reality, the West struggles not only to lead, but to understand the world it is now part of. This video explores where the West is heading, why familiar explanations no longer suffice, and what it means to move into 2026 without the assumptions that shaped the last era. 🎓 Lecturer: Exclusive Interview Glenn Diesen & Professor Jiang Xueqin 📅 Recorded: 2025 📖 Full Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5gG9xXBQZE&t=1637s ⚖️ Educational & Copyright Disclaimer This video is presented for educational and informational purposes. It contains edited excerpts from a publicly available lecture, transformed to foreground key philosophical, geopolitical, and civilisational arguments. All rights to the original lecture remain with the original creator Glenn Diesen. Lecture Hall curates and contextualises academic work to make serious ideas accessible to a wider audience. #West #Civilisation #Geopolitics #Future #2026 #PoliticalPhilosophy #LectureHall #WorldOrder