Basic Rights
# Basic 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.

## Reception

Thomas Pogge, Michael Payne, and Andrew Cohen criticized Shue's ideas on basic rights. Jordan Kiper provided a defense of Shue's arguments for basic rights.

