Basic Rights

For the concept of basic right, see fundamental rights.

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]}

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

First edition
Author	Henry Shue
Subject	Human rights
Published	1980; 2nd edition, 1996
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Pages	256 pp.
ISBN	9780691029290

Reception

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]