Belonging across Philosophy Psychology and Economics: Connections and implications for international politics conflict theory and ecology

This article explains the connections among Carlos Federico Obregon Diaz’s Philosophy, Psychology, and Economics of Belonging and develops their implications for international politics, conflict theory, and ecology. The philosophical foundation combines constitutive relational existence, stratified reality, imperfect belonging, and dual temporality. The psychological account examines how persons develop through embodiment, affect, love, social significance, and existential significance. The economic account investigates how participation capacities and institutional openness jointly shape effective participation, linking belonging to growth, stability, income distribution, and the distribution of capabilities. The article connects these domains through reciprocal relationships: institutions shape personal opportunities and experience, while developing individuals sustain, contest, and transform institutions. The Ethics of Belonging provides scientifically revisable criteria for investigating the relationship between participant development and collective adaptability, without deriving unconditional moral obligations from ontology. Three applications follow. International politics concerns the institutional organization of differentiated interdependence. Conflict analysis examines resources, recognition, power, exclusionary group attachments, and opportunities for institutional repair. Ecological analysis situates human institutions within the material and biological conditions on which they depend. A comparative table and a hypothetical energy-transition example clarify how the domains interact without losing their explanatory specificity. The article offers a conceptual synthesis and research agenda; it does not report new empirical findings or propose a final institutional blueprint.