Salvador Santino Regilme Jr.

Salvador Santino Regilme (born 1986) is an interdisciplinary researcher of International Relations and human rights, and he is a tenured Associate Professor of International Relations (Universitair hoofddocent) based at the Institute of History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Born in the Philippines and educated in Germany and the United States, he is a Dutch scholar focusing on international human rights norms, North-South relations, global security issues, and contemporary United States foreign policy. At Leiden University, he serves as the Chair of the MA in International Relations Program, which is one of Europe's largest and most distinctive humanities-based and transdisciplinary programs in the field. He is the author of Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia (University of Michigan Press, 2021), which received several accolades, including the 2023 Cecil B. Currey Book Award from the Association of Global South Studies and 2024 Best Book in Human Rights - Honorable Mention from the International Studies Association's Human Rights Section. His most recent monograph is United States and Chinese Foreign Assistance and Diplomacy: Aid for Dominance (forthcoming in 2026, Manchester University Press, coauthored with Obert Hodzi). He is the sole editor of Children's Rights in Crisis: Multidisciplinary, Transnational, and Comparative Perspectives (Manchester University Press, 2024) and The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformations: Geographies of Rivalry (Bristol University Press, 2024). He is the principal co-editor of Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity (Rutgers University Press, 2022) and American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers (Routledge, 2018). He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in leading journals in the social sciences, humanities and law — as well as peer-reviewed book chapters, book review articles, and op-ed pieces.