Salvador Santino Regilme is a tenured Associate Professor of International Relations at Leiden University’s Institute of History, where he also chairs the MA in International Relations program. Born in the Philippines and educated in Germany and the United States, he specializes in international human rights norms, North–South relations, global security, and U.S. 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), winner of the 2023 Cecil B. Currey Book Award and recipient of the 2024 ISA Best Book in Human Rights Honorable Mention. His next book, ‘United States and Chinese Foreign Assistance and Diplomacy: Aid for Dominance,’ is forthcoming from Manchester University Press. Regilme has held research fellowships at Yale University, the Max Planck Institute, and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg, previously served on the faculty at Northern Illinois University, and has received publication awards from the International Studies Association, the American Sociological Association, and the Association for Global South Studies.
