Henry Shue
235 Goldwin Smith Hall
Telephone:: (607) 255-9328
Email: hs23@cornell.edu
Professor Shue, a Professor of Ethics
and Public Life, is primarily interested in ethical issues that arise in
international affairs, especially issues about the foreign policy of the
United States. He has worked on the relative priority of economic rights,
the strength of obligations across national boundaries, the morality of
nuclear deterrence, and the justice of international cooperation on the
environment. After teaching at the University of North Carolina and
Wellesley College, he was a founding member of the Institute for
Philosophy and Public Policy. He came to Cornell in 1987 to develop the
interdisciplinary EPL Program.
Selected Publications
- Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy
(1980; 2nd ed., 1996).
- "Torture," Philosophy & Public Affairs (1977-78).
- "Exporting Hazards," Ethics (1981).
- "The Burdens of Justice," Journal of Philosophy (1983).
- "Conflicting Conceptions of Deterrence," Social Philosophy & Policy (1985).
- "Mediating Duties," Ethics (1988).
- Nuclear Deterrence and Moral Restraint: Critical Choices for
American Strategy (ed.) (1989).
- "The Unavoidability of Justice," in The International
Politics of the Environment (1992).
- "Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions," Law & Policy (1993).
- "Avoidable Necessity: Global Warming, International Fairness, and
Alternative Energy," in Theory and Practice, NOMOS XXXVII (1995).
- "Solidarity among Strangers and the Right to Food," in World Hunger and
Morality, 2nd Ed. (1996).
- "Eroding Sovereignty," in The Morality Of Nationalism (1997).
- "Climate," in Companion to Environmental Ethics (2001).
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