Dr Salvador Santino Regilme

Profile

Salvador Santino Regilme is a tenured Associate Professor of International Relations (Universitair hoofddocent) 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.

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 latest monograph is United States and Chinese Foreign Assistance and Diplomacy: Aid for Dominance (Manchester University Press, 2026, 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 established journals in the social sciences and humanities, peer-reviewed book chapters, and numerous book review articles and op-ed pieces. 

Research

Publications

• Children's Rights in Crisis: Multidisciplinary, Transnational, and Comparative Perspectives (Manchester University Press, 2024, edited).

• Regilme, S. S. J. F., & Spoldi, E. (2021). Children in armed conflict: A human rights crisis in Somalia. Global Jurist, 21(2), 365-402.

Expertise