| First edition | |
| Author | Henry Shue |
|---|---|
| Subject | Human rights |
| Published | 1980; 2nd edition, 1996 |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 256 pp. |
| ISBN | 9780691029290 |
Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy is a book by Henry Shue in which he examines the issue of human rights and its relation to U.S. foreign policy. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Thomas Pogge, [7] Michael Payne, [8] and Andrew Cohen [9] criticized Shue's ideas on basic rights. Jordan Kiper provided a defense of Shue's arguments for basic rights. [10]