num_pages: 254
description: 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.
language: English
title: Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy
titlecomplete: Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy
genres: Law, International Relations, Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 58
publisher: Princeton University Press