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What is the five-question frame for an identity stimulus?
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(1) Which identities are in play? (2) Constructed or activated, and by whom? (3) Dividing or could it unite? (4) Whose recognition and belonging is at stake, and what response at what levels? (5) What trade-offs?
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Why treat identity as 'one connected challenge'?
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Because identity politics, nationalism/self-determination, migration/belonging and conflict/cohesion interlock — a case usually involves several at once, and Paper 3 rewards synthesising them.
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In the case studies, most identity issues involved what?
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Both recognition and belonging, usually across national and international levels — several strands at once rather than one.
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What is the 'strengthens' view of identity politics?
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It wins recognition and voice for excluded groups, corrects real injustices a 'neutral' politics ignored, and forces political community to become genuinely inclusive — making global politics fairer.
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What is the 'fractures' view of identity politics?
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It can harden society into rival blocs, turn issues existential, be weaponised by populists, and crowd out shared belonging — fracturing the common community.
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What is the judged conclusion on identity politics?
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It strengthens or fractures depending on whether it is inclusive or exclusive: inclusive, rights-based identity politics within a shared community strengthens it; exclusive identity politics against others fractures it.
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Why are recognition and shared belonging not opposites?
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Because you can win recognition and equal standing WITHIN a shared political community — the task is recognition without abandoning the common frame, not choosing one over the other.
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How should you handle a case in Paper 3?
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Apply the frame to the stimulus (don't recite memorised facts): analyse which identities, constructed/activated, divide/unite and recognition at stake, then recommend and synthesise.
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Why must an identity recommendation usually span levels?
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Because most identity issues have both national roots (inclusion, rights, cohesion) and cross-border dimensions (diasporas, spillover, protection), so no single actor suffices.
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How do you synthesise an identity case?
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Connect it to the wider challenge — identity politics, nationalism, migration and conflict/cohesion — and to rights and equality, weighing trade-offs and landing a judged position.
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What is the top-band judgement Paper 3 rewards on identity?
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Realism plus agency: identity divides or unites, and identity politics strengthens or fractures, depending on inclusive vs exclusive — so how it turns out depends substantially on political choices.
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