Basic Rights
Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy: 40th Anniversary Edition
1st Edition
Published on 28. October 2020
280 pages
978-0-691-20083-5 (ISBN)
Description
An expanded and updated edition of a classic work on human rights and global justice
Since its original publication, Basic Rights has proven increasingly influential to those working in political philosophy, human rights, global justice, and the ethics of international relations and foreign policy, particularly in debates regarding foreign policy's role in alleviating global poverty. Henry Shue asks: Which human rights ought to be the first honored and the last sacrificed? Shue argues that subsistence rights, along with security rights and liberty rights, serve as the ground of all other human rights. This classic work, now available in a thoroughly updated fortieth-anniversary edition, includes a substantial new chapter by the author examining how the accelerating transformation of our climate progressively undermines the bases of subsistence like sufficient water, affordable food, and housing safe from forest-fires and sea-level rise. Climate change threatens basic rights.
Since its original publication, Basic Rights has proven increasingly influential to those working in political philosophy, human rights, global justice, and the ethics of international relations and foreign policy, particularly in debates regarding foreign policy's role in alleviating global poverty. Henry Shue asks: Which human rights ought to be the first honored and the last sacrificed? Shue argues that subsistence rights, along with security rights and liberty rights, serve as the ground of all other human rights. This classic work, now available in a thoroughly updated fortieth-anniversary edition, includes a substantial new chapter by the author examining how the accelerating transformation of our climate progressively undermines the bases of subsistence like sufficient water, affordable food, and housing safe from forest-fires and sea-level rise. Climate change threatens basic rights.
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Henry Shue is professor emeritus of politics and international relations at Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Fighting Hurt: Rule and Exception in Torture and War and Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection.
Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface to the 40th Anniversary Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction
- I THREE BASIC RIGHTS
- 1 Security and Subsistence
- 2 Correlative Duties
- 3 Liberty
- II THREE CHALLENGES TO SUBSISTENCE RIGHTS
- 4 Realism and Responsibility
- 5 Affluence and Responsibility
- 6 Nationality and Responsibility
- III NEW CHALLENGES TO BASIC RIGHTS
- 7 Right-grounded Duties and the Institutional Turn (1996)
- 8 Basic Rights and Climate Change (2020)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
