The Normative Implications of “Knowing the Future” for Preventive War

What if claims about the future informed us about the intentions and the capabilities of our opponents to wage war against ourselves? Would and should the existing norms that restrict the preventive use of force change in the wake of such transformation? This article highlights the potential normative consequences of this change and discriminates between several possible normative evolutions. Would and should the “knowability of the future” alter radically the traditional rule of self-defense? This rule could indeed be jeopardized but, as I argue in this paper, it should not (and might not necessarily). However, the distinction between preemption and prevention could become obsolete. Future claims about security will also induce new security doctrines as knowledge about the future would be used to signal one’s intentions and deter one’s opponent. This change would also have a significant impact on accountability, as citizens would have a more active role in discussions over foreign policy. Moreover, new modes of predictions and forecasting will challenge the traditional role of experts whose biases have hampered their analyses and anticipations. Thus, trustworthy future claims could bring significant progress in both ethical and political terms as they would trigger a debate on the role of knowledge in democratic societies.     

论当今国际维和行动发展和趋势

本文从当今国际维和行动现状出发,分析了国际维和行动的特点,剖析了国际维和行动面临的挑战问题,最后对国际维和行动的发展提出几点思考,并系统阐述了维和行动的相关问题。     

用环境伦理思想指导兵团经济可持续发展

工业文明在给人类带来物质繁荣的同时,又把人类引入了难以克服的自然、社会、环境灾难中,可持续发展应运而生.继承科技进步和生产力发展的文明成果,顺应世界经济一体化和西部开发的历史潮流,发挥兵团的制度和地域优势,用可持续发展战略推动兵团经济跨越式发展,理应成为兵团迎接西部开发的基本原则.     

印度外空技术试验受到的压制、影响及其对策研究

印度开展外空技术试验遭受了来自国际舆论的谴责、强国遏制与外空法约束等多个方面的压力.当今世界航天大国都在竞相开展外空技术试验.当各国面临相似的问题时,应尽快开展研究,找出如何以合理的理由、灵活的手段开展试验,同时集结优势力量开展国际合作.本文深入分析主要航天国家对印度开展外空试验的主要压制手段,以此剖析印度外空技术试验...     

党的十七大“建设和谐世界”思想的价值分析

“外交是内政的延续”,通过对“建设和谐世界”思想及其指导下的中国外交实践的深入分析,我们不难看出,“建设和谐世界”思想,可以树立中国的良好国际形象,可以消除国际上对中国和平发展的疑虑和不信任,对提高中国的综合国力、加快中国的和平发展意义深远。     

Reconsidering the Legal Equality of Combatants

ABSTRACT

The legal equality of combatants (LEC) is a fixture of international law and just war theory. Both scholars who embrace and those who reject the moral equality of combatants seem committed to the legal equality of combatants. Their reasons usually include pragmatic worries about unjust combatants committing even more harm if they were to be simply prohibited from fighting. In this article I argue that this sweeping commitment to the legal equality of combatants is mistaken and that it is often grounded in a misunderstanding of the way international law governs behavior.     

论中国维和警察培训与国际接轨的途径

中国维和警察培训要赶超世界先进水平 ,就必须高目标定位 ,高起点切入 ,高质量培训 ,高标准评估 ,高层次交流 ,努力探索中国维和警察培训与国际接轨的有效途径     

论教师的职业良心

教师职业良心是构成教师职业道德的基本因素之一。教师职业良心在教师职业道德中有着特殊意义 ,对教师行为起调节作用 ,因此必须重视和培养教师的职业良心     

War,vagueness and hybrid war

It has frequently been observed in the literature on hybrid wars that there is a grey zone between peace and war, and that hybrid wars are conflicts which are not clear cases of war. In this paper, I attempt to illuminate this grey zone and the concept and nature of war from the philosophical discussions of vagueness and institutional facts. Vague terms are characterized by the fact that there is no non-arbitrary boundary between entities which lie in their extension, and entities which do not lie in their extension. I apply a theory of vagueness to notions such as “war” and “peace” and go on to suggest that the exact boundary for what counts as a war or not is arbitrary. However, the context in which the conflict occurs determines a range of possible locations for this boundary. The most important contextual parameter is in this respect how the parties to the conflict themselves conceptualize the conflict. I suggest that this can in various ways help us understand grey-zone conflicts.