Conflict for space : a focus on identity duality / Shavkat Kasymov.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1. Introduction : Liberal peace and conflict of identities -- Identity duality in a historical perspective -- A conservative and a liberal democracy -- Notes. Human liberty in the context of identity alignment. From individual to social regionalism: conflict within societies and provoked mobility : Causes of migration -- Territorial dominance -- Notes. Fragmented families : Gender roles in the process of regionalism -- Social approval of marriages -- Notes. Prevalence of institutional regionalism in societies : Corruption -- Institutional regionalism - Alcoholism and suicide -- Notes. Concluding remarks : Identity equilibrium -- Spatial proximity as a means of ameliorating conflict -- Notes. Part 2. Identity duality and international relations : Moving beyond the anarchy mode -- On the problem of double standards -- Rational incompatibilities -- Notes.

Argues that a sense of affinity for land and space constitutes the foundation of human agency and underlies all social activity of human beings from a personal level to family, nation, region, and the world. Identities, to which the process of regionalism is intimately tied, have a close connection to ancestral land. Land, or space, is protected by social laws, formal and informal instruments of power against an intrusion by another identity. The author argues that human society is divided into two identity groups, namely, a conservative and a liberal identity. Framing the argument in terms of the identity duality advances the present body of knowledge and understanding of conflict and human society. The author seeks to explain the dualism in human nature and the occurrence of wars in human society.