Katechon: On the Political and Theological Foundations of International Justice
Journal: Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review
Year: 2023

The paper examines the problems of international justice in its relation to one of the most significant concepts of Christian theology — the katechon. The main hypothesis of the article is that the katechon in international relations manifests itself as a balancing effect of a specific spatial order, expressed in the containment/transgression of forces aimed at the demarcation of “red lines”, and contributes to the displacement of the horizon for catastrophic events. In order to substantiate thi