Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy

by Henry Shue

Which human rights ought to be the first honored and the last sacrificed? In the first systematic attempt by an American philosopher to address the issue of human rights as it relates to U.S. foreign policy, Henry Shue proposes an original conception of basic rights that illuminates both the nature of moral rights generally and the determination of which specific rights are the basic ones.

Genres: Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction, International Relations, Law

256 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1980