Charles Beitz has written books and articles in global political theory (Political Theory and International Relations, rev. ed. Princeton UP 1999) and democratic theory (Political Equality, Princeton UP 1989) and author of The Idea of Human Rights (OUP 2009). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Robert Goodin has 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). He is Distinguished Professor of Social and Political Theory and Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University.

• 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

[This book] offers excellent, in some cases path-breaking, contributions by outstanding political philosophers and theorists, including Charles Beitz, Robert Goodin, Elizabeth Ashford, Simon Caney, Neta Crawford, Andrew Hurrell, Judith Lichtenberg, David Luban, Richard Miller, Thomas Pogge, Christian Reus-Smit, and Jeremy Waldron. Global Basic Rights is obligatory reading for anyone interested in global justice and the philosophical inquiry about rights