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This paper applies the Church's understanding of the dual nature -in one person- of Christ, human and divine, to the issue of the strained between the Church and the State, within the Creation and the History. This question is approached and analysed through two theological, ecclesiological and canonical categories, alterity (otherness) and communion , which are based on the antinomical conciliar formula of a (comm)union "without confusion and without division". With the help of the systematic and canonical theology of the Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon (451), it has investigated the Christological question , according to the author, of the relationships between the Church and the State on a global level, in the name of the a double and symmetrical divergence: occurs: on the one hand, the autonomisation of otherness leading to the minorisation of communion, in other words, division and separation between Church and State arising from turning otherness into absolute autonomy (without any communion and relationship); and on the other hand, the alienation of communion causing confusion, and leading to the absorption of otherness , in other words, absorption of the weak locally established Church by the powerful State leading to "confusion" (in the Chalcedonian sense) - without any alterity. In the first case, priority is given to being "without confusion" at the detriment of being "without division" (communion), whereas in the second, we observe the predominance of "without division" and the total abolition of "without confusion" (otherness-autonomy). The author enshrines in Church, Body of Christ, its very nature a combination of alterity (otherness) and communion. He argues that these characteristics are undermined by the twin distortions of State infliction and untamed separation, which are marred the relations between these two entities, the Church and the State. For fifteen centuries now, this conception of relationships between the Church and the State has placed a burden at an ecumenical level. More precisely, the ecclesiological vision of the Council of Chalcedon was the simultaneous coexistence of otherness and communion between State and Church as a clearly paradoxical or antinomial feature of the christological mode of coexistence of the two natures of Christ: the human nature and the divine one. It naturally emerges that the coexistence of Church and State in a given state territory is realised through the acceptance of their ontological and institutional otherness and the preservation of communi(cati)on and relationship among them. Special reference is made to the case of the Political Dimension of the Church Eschatology.

Governance can either support or hinder the sustainability of socio-ecological systems. Like socio-ecological systems, governance is also a complex adaptive system, featuring path dependency, surprises, thresholds, and cascades. Frameworks characterize the dynamics of socio-ecological systems and include governance or some of its components. However, governance is often portrayed in a simplistic and static manner that does not reflect the complexity of governance. This paper presents a new framework that considers the governance system as a "political reactor" between politics and policies in open-ended cycles of action and reaction. The political reactor consists in iterations of politics, action, policy, and reaction, whose metabolism depends on the configuration, influence, interaction, and impact of actors, ideas, instruments, and ecosystems across space, time, and sectors. The Political Reactor Framework (PRF) adopts a systems approach, opening new avenues for research, including new typologies, for instance, of "fluid" and "jammed" governance systems, of political processes and implementation policies as subsystems, and of collective action and reaction as feedback loops. This framework allows better understanding the inertia and path dependency of governance systems and subsystems. Their partial self-referentiality, especially at the level of the political process and implementation policies, complicates the assessment of effectiveness. The framework also allows identifying drivers of systemic transformation, including ideas and environmental change. Lastly, this framework suggests that the analysis of the components of the governance systems is an interdisciplinary exercise that requires sustainability science to understand the governance of socio-ecological systems as a whole. The contents and conclusions of the book Ecoregionalism: analyzing regional environmental processes and agreements, which has just been published, will also be presented and discussed. ; La gouvernance peut soit soutenir, soit ...

Governance can either support or hinder the sustainability of socio-ecological systems. Like socio-ecological systems, governance is also a complex adaptive system, featuring path dependency, surprises, thresholds, and cascades. Frameworks characterize the dynamics of socio-ecological systems and include governance or some of its components. However, governance is often portrayed in a simplistic and static manner that does not reflect the complexity of governance. This paper presents a new framework that considers the governance system as a "political reactor" between politics and policies in open-ended cycles of action and reaction. The political reactor consists in iterations of politics, action, policy, and reaction, whose metabolism depends on the configuration, influence, interaction, and impact of actors, ideas, instruments, and ecosystems across space, time, and sectors. The Political Reactor Framework (PRF) adopts a systems approach, opening new avenues for research, including new typologies, for instance, of "fluid" and "jammed" governance systems, of political processes and implementation policies as subsystems, and of collective action and reaction as feedback loops. This framework allows better understanding the inertia and path dependency of governance systems and subsystems. Their partial self-referentiality, especially at the level of the political process and implementation policies, complicates the assessment of effectiveness. The framework also allows identifying drivers of systemic transformation, including ideas and environmental change. Lastly, this framework suggests that the analysis of the components of the governance systems is an interdisciplinary exercise that requires sustainability science to understand the governance of socio-ecological systems as a whole. The contents and conclusions of the book Ecoregionalism: analyzing regional environmental processes and agreements, which has just been published, will also be presented and discussed. ; La gouvernance peut soit soutenir, soit ...

Governance can either support or hinder the sustainability of socio-ecological systems. Like socio-ecological systems, governance is also a complex adaptive system, featuring path dependency, surprises, thresholds, and cascades. Frameworks characterize the dynamics of socio-ecological systems and include governance or some of its components. However, governance is often portrayed in a simplistic and static manner that does not reflect the complexity of governance. This paper presents a new framework that considers the governance system as a "political reactor" between politics and policies in open-ended cycles of action and reaction. The political reactor consists in iterations of politics, action, policy, and reaction, whose metabolism depends on the configuration, influence, interaction, and impact of actors, ideas, instruments, and ecosystems across space, time, and sectors. The Political Reactor Framework (PRF) adopts a systems approach, opening new avenues for research, including new typologies, for instance, of "fluid" and "jammed" governance systems, of political processes and implementation policies as subsystems, and of collective action and reaction as feedback loops. This framework allows better understanding the inertia and path dependency of governance systems and subsystems. Their partial self-referentiality, especially at the level of the political process and implementation policies, complicates the assessment of effectiveness. The framework also allows identifying drivers of systemic transformation, including ideas and environmental change. Lastly, this framework suggests that the analysis of the components of the governance systems is an interdisciplinary exercise that requires sustainability science to understand the governance of socio-ecological systems as a whole. The contents and conclusions of the book Ecoregionalism: analyzing regional environmental processes and agreements, which has just been published, will also be presented and discussed. ; La gouvernance peut soit soutenir, soit ...