Global Basic Rights brings together many of the most influential contemporary writers in political philosophy and international relations to explore some of the most challenging theoretical and practical questions provoked by Henry Shue's classic book Basic Rights.

1. Introduction: Basic Rights and Beyond ; 2. On Rights and Institutions ; 3. Another Turn of the Wheel? ; 4. Are There Any Basic Rights? ; 5. The Alleged Dichotomy Between Positive and Negative Duties of Justice ; 6. Shue on Rights and Duties ; 7. No Borders, No Bystanders: Developing Individual and Institutional Capacities for Global Moral Responsibility ; 8. Global Power and Economic Justice ; 9. Unthinking the Ticking Bomb ; 10. Security as a Basic Right (After 9/11) ; 11. Human Rights, Responsibilities, and Climate Change ; Index

Charles Beitz is Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He has written books and articles in global political theory (The Idea of Human Rights, OUP 2009; Political Theory and International Relations, rev. ed. Princeton UP 1999) and democratic theory (Political Equality, Princeton UP 1989). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Robert Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Social & Political Theory and Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University, having previously taught in the Government Department at the University of Essex. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, founding editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy and general editor of the ten-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. His work straddles democratic theory (Reflective Democracy, OUP 2003; Innovating Democracy, OUP 2008), empirical welfare-state studies (The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, CUP 1999; Discretionary Time, CUP 2008) and theoretical reflections on public policy (Social Welfare as an Individual Responsibility, CUP 1998; What's Wrong with Terrorism? Polity 2006).