Strategic Identity Diffusion
A response to Geographic Polarization.
Ethnic Balkanization, or Geographic Ethnic Polarization, is the process by which ethnicities become geographically differentiated within a shared political space. This phenomenon is one example of Geographic Identity Polarization (GIP), which includes political ideology.
The conflict in Turkish, Syrian, and Iraqi Kurdistan is a result of GIP, where Kurds…
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