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标题：The Ethics of Arming Rebels
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作者：James Pattison
期刊名称：Ethics & International Affairs
印刷版ISSN：0892-6794
出版年度：2015
卷号：29
期号：4
页码：455-471
DOI：10.1017/S089267941500043X
语种：English
出版社：Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
摘要：Despite the popularity of arming rebels as a foreign policy option, there is very little, if any, detailed engagement with the ethical issues surrounding the practice. There is a growing literature on the ethical issues surrounding civil wars and, more specifically, the conditions for engaging in just rebellion; but the focus of this literature is largely on the question of the justifiability of the rebels themselves in engaging in civil war and their conduct when doing so, rather than the permissibility of the arming of rebels by other agents. It is precisely this issue that I want to address here. Overall, I argue that the process should be generally eschewed. More specifically, this article seeks to establish that arming rebels is generally impermissible and only exceptionally morally permissible (even, as I will argue, when rebels are engaged in unjust wars). The former, far more restrictive claim will be established in the first part of the article. The latter, more permissive claim will be established in the second part of the article.