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This monograph presents a unified theoretical framework for understanding identity as a recursive informational process. It develops the concept of recursive identity as a dynamic, self‑referential architecture that generates continuity across temporal, contextual, and systemic transformations. Rather than treating identity as a property of a substrate, the framework analyzes the structural conditions under which identity‑bearing patterns emerge, stabilize, and evolve. The model identifies three foundational structural principles—Integration, Coherence, and Recursive Coupling—as the minimal and sufficient grammar for the persistence of identity. These principles explain how systems maintain continuity through fixed‑point dynamics, nonlinear feedback, and path‑dependent self‑organization, independent of any specific material realization. The framework thus provides a substrate‑neutral foundation for examining identity in complex systems, from cognitive and informational architectures to process‑philosophical and metatheoretical contexts. Grounded in a structure‑before‑discipline orientation, the approach derives its explanatory force from minimal structural conditions rather than from domain‑specific conceptual traditions. A Systemic Pattern‑Structure Analysis (SMSA) is used to identify the smallest necessary set of structural relations from which recursive identity emerges. This record is linked to the accompanying Entry Note, which introduces the core intuition and conceptual posture of the framework. The Entry Note serves as an accessible companion document, offering a concise orientation to the structural logic of recursive identity and outlining the minimal conditions required for identity to arise as a process. Together, the monograph and the Entry Note provide a coherent theoretical basis for system‑theoretical, computational, and structural approaches to identity. The German Version 1.0 of the framework, published as Rekursive Identität: Eine Theorie struktureller Kontinuität (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18701758), serves as the master reference for the original formulation. This monograph is not a translation but a revised, extended, and carefully curated international version of the German Master of Record, offering a consolidated and further developed articulation of the framework.