Basic Rights

{{Short description|1980 book by Henry Shue}}

{{for|the concept of basic right|fundamental rights}}

{{Infobox book

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

| author = Henry Shue

| image = Basic Rights.jpg

| caption = First edition

| 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.{{cite journal |last1=Wellman |first1=Carl |title=Review of Basic Rights |journal=Human Rights Quarterly |date=1981 |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=144–147 |doi=10.2307/761904 |jstor=761904 |s2cid=219034937 }}{{cite journal |last1=Ashford |first1=Elizabeth |title=In What Sense Is the Right to Subsistence a Basic Right? |journal=Journal of Social Philosophy |date=December 2009 |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=488–503 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-9833.2009.01467.x |language=en |issn=0047-2786}}{{cite journal |last1=Kuflik |first1=Arthur |title=Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy. Henry Shue |journal=Ethics |date=January 1984 |volume=94 |issue=2 |pages=319–324 |doi=10.1086/292535 |language=en |issn=0014-1704}}{{cite journal |last1=Frey |first1=Barbara |title=Henry Shue, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2nd ed., (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996) pp ix+236. |journal=Business and Human Rights Journal |date=January 2017 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=189–194 |doi=10.1017/bhj.2016.33 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-and-human-rights-journal/article/div-classtitleshue-henry-basic-rights-subsistence-affluence-and-us-foreign-policy-2nd-ed-princeton-nj-princeton-university-press-1996-pp-ix236div/43F9D53C9D4977D3865AE805BF5E5B8C |accessdate=21 August 2018 |language=en |issn=2057-0198|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Diebold |first1=William |title=Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy |journal=Foreign Affairs |issue=Summer 1981 |date=Summer 1981 |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1981-06-01/basic-rights-subsistence-affluence-and-us-foreign-policy |accessdate=21 August 2018 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Woodward |first1=P. A. |title=Shue on Basic Rights |journal=Social Theory and Practice |date=2002 |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=637–665 |doi=10.5840/soctheorpract200228428 |jstor=23559098 }}