West ‘Dead in the Water’ If Identity Politics Persists Warns UK Author

Doug Stokes, professor in International Security and the director of the Strategy and Security Institute at the University of Exeter, during an interview with NTD's British Thought Leaders programme. NTD

The West will be “dead in the water” if identity politics continue to undermine its culture, a British author warned.

Doug Stokes, professor in international security and the director of the strategy and security institute at the University of Exeter, said identity politics are absorbing “way too much” of the West’s cultural bandwidth while there is “bigger existential stuff going on right now,” such as the rise of communist China.