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International politics is widely assumed to be an exclusively human activity. This article argues that rethinking this assumption is necessary in order to find a practical and ethically appropriate relationship with nature and nonhuman animals, and in order to call into question the violent logics that underpin the category of the human in existing international politics. The article inquires into the ways that anthropocentrism structures thinking about contemporary international politics, focusing in particular on how the �language objection� works. It concludes that we might turn instead towards an interspecies conception of politics, one that does not stop at the boundary of a human that we were never able to fully pinpoint in the first place.
