Basic Rights (eBook)

Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy: 40th Anniversary Edition

Henry Shue (Autor)

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2020 | 3. Auflage
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20083-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An expanded and updated edition of a classic work on human rights and global justiceSince 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • Aid • Amartya Sen • americans • A Theory of Justice • attempt • authoritarianism • Cambridge University Press • Civil and Political Rights • climate change • Commodity • Consideration • Criticism • cultural rights • developed country • dichotomy • Dictatorship • disadvantage • disaster • Drought • Due Process • duty to protect • Economic Development • Economic Security • egalitarianism • Energy Policy • ethnic group • Explanation • food security • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • Fossil fuel • Freedom of movement • freedom of speech • Fundamental Rights • Government • Greenhouse Gas • Guideline • Human Rights • Ideology • implementation • income • Institution • International Law • James C. Scott • Joel Feinberg • John Rawls • Jurisdiction • Latin America • Legislation • Liberalism • Liberty • Malnutrition • Michael Walzer • Modernity • Moral Economy • Morality • Nationality • nation state • Natural and legal rights • Obedience (human behavior) • obstacle • overpopulation • Oxford University Press • peasant • Philosopher • Physical Security • Policy • Political Philosophy • Population Growth • premises • presumption • Princeton University Press • proclamation • Provision (contracting) • Public Policy • purchasing power • Quantity • ratification • Reasonable Person • Requirement • result • rights • Scarcity (social psychology) • shortage • Slavery • standard of living • Subversion • Suggestion • Suharto • The Other Hand • Torture • Trade-off • Treaty • United States Department of State • Universal Declaration of Human Rights • University of California Press • Wealth • Working Group • Yale University Press
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20083-1 / 0691200831
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20083-5 / 9780691200835