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Books

Nonhuman Humanitarians by Benjamin Meiches

Andrew Strebkov considers animals to be unlikely humanitarians.

Dr Benjamin Meiches’ main (academic) interests lie in armed conflict, genocide, and international law. An associate professor of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at Washington University, he is known in the field (and no, I don’t mean the battlefield) for his book, The Politics of Annihilation. He’s also known for winning the Best Article of 2019 Prize of the Review of International Studies for an article on ‘Nonhuman Humanitarians’. His new book Nonhuman Humanitarians: Animal Interventions in Global Politics (2023) is in line with that article. The professor says he considers this topic important because nonhuman animals potentially offer a new form of humanitarian politics, through multispecies collaboration.

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