Books (7)

1. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (in production, forthcoming in 2026) (ed).  Statelessness and Citizenship Revocation in Europe: Rethinking Politics, Law, Security, and Human Rights. Berlin: De Gruyter.
2. Regilme, Salvador Santino and Hodzi, Obert. (in production, forthcoming in 2026). United States and Chinese Foreign Assistance and Diplomacy: Aid for Dominance. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
3.  Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (ed.) (2024). Children's Rights in Crisis: Multidisciplinary, Transnational, and Comparative Perspectives. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. 
4. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (ed.) (2024). The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformations: Geographies of Rivalry. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
5. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. & Irene Hadiprayitno. (Eds.) (2022). Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.  [edited volume]
6. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2021) Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia. Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Book Series. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press
  • Winner, 2023 Cecil B. Currey Book Award, Association from Global South Studies;
  • 2024 Best Book in Human Rights - Honorable Mention, International Studies Association;
  • Finalist in the “Political and Social Sciences” Category of the 2021 Foreword INDIES Book Award
  • Reviewed in: International Affairs (Oxford University Press); Perspectives on Politics (Cambridge University Press); World Affairs (SAGE); European Journal of East Asian Studies (BRILL); Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace Studies; Diplomatic History (Oxford University Press); LSE Review of Books (London School of Economics); Australian Outlook (Australian Institute of International Affairs); The SAIS Review of International Affairs; Revue française de science politique (top French journal for political science)
  • Podcast interviews in New Books Network and Scholars Unbound
  • Featured in Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, AsiaGlobal Online, 9DASHLINE, and The Diplomat
  • Reviewed by world-leading humanities and social sciences scholars (blurbs, book launches, and public events) such as Samuel Moyn (Yale), Michael Barnett (George Washington University), Dan Slater (University of Michigan), Stephen Hopgood (SOAS London), Julian Go (University of Chicago), Bonny Ibhawoh (UN and McMaster University), Emilie Hafner-Burton (UC San Diego), among many others.
7. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. & James Parisot (Eds.) (2017hb; 2019pb) American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers: Cooperation or Conflict.Global Cooperation Series. London and New York: Routledge (2017: hardback; 2019: paperback) [download: introduction and conclusion] [edited volume]

Book projects with contract:
 
  • Regilme, Salvador Santino. (sole author). Carceral Militarism and human rights in constitutional democracies: War on drugs, war on dignity. Under contract – Manchester University Press
  • Regilme, Salvador Santino. (editor) International Relations: New Perspectives in Global Politics. Under contract – SAGE. (final manuscript submission 2027)
  • Regilme, Salvador Santino. (sole author) Researching Human Rights: Methods, Ethics, and Power. Under contract – Edward Elgar. (final manuscript submission 2027)


Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (42)
 
  1. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (forthcoming in 2026). Dehumanization: humanity and dignity deprivation in global crises. New Political Science.  
  2. Zandee, Bart-Jan & Salvador Santino Regilme. (accepted for publication). Why Did the Netherlands Apologize? Slavery, Justice, and the Political Conditions of State Apologies in Europe. Review of International Studies.
  3. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (accepted for publication). The Hague as Archive: Duterte’s War on Drugs, Instrumental Sovereignty, and the Architecture of Global Impunity. Law & Critique.
  4. Lopez-Bremme, Malena and Salvador Santino Regilme. (2025). Climate Change, Ecocide, and the Rise of Environmental Refugees: The Case of Syria. Political Studies.  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00323217251382404
  5. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025). The global war on drugs: Militarism and its human rights consequences. Critical Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205251364102
  6. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025) The Hague as a Mirror: Duterte’s War on Drugs and the Global Politics of Dehumanization. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice. doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2025.2550389
  7. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025). Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism. The British Journal of Sociology. DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70009
  8. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (accepted for publication). Militarized Punishment: The Trump Administration’s Escalation of the U.S. War on Drugs. Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
  9. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (forthcoming, summer 2025, print edition). Reimagining United States Foreign Aid and the Post-Pandemic World Order. The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.
  10. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025). The Philippines confronts Duterte’s authoritarian legacy at The Hague. East Asia Forum. https://doi.org/10.59425/eabc.1744279200
  11. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2024) Artificial Intelligence Colonialism: Environmental Damage, Labor Exploitation, and Human Rights Crises in the Global South. SAIS Review of International Affairs 44(2), 75-92. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sais.2024.a950958.
  12. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr.   (2024). Europe's Super-Rich: Towards an Oligarchic Constitutional Order. Journal of Common Market Studies
  13. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr.  and Kevin Parthenay (2024). COVID-19 Pandemic and Competitive Authoritarian Regimes: Human Rights and
    Democracy in the Philippines and Nicaragua    . Political Geography
  14. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2024). International Relations in Public Health: The Pentagon’s Anti-Vax Campaign During COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Public Health.
  15. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2023). Crisis Politics of Dehumanization During COVID-19: A Framework for Mapping the Social Processes Through Which Dehumanization Undermines Dignity. British Journal of Politics and International Relations.  https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481231178247
  16. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2023). State Violence in Narcotic Drug Governance: A Call for Harm Reduction and Human Rights Protection. Journal of Perpetrator Research. 5(1), pp.65-76.
  17. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2023). Systemic Hypocrisy in United States Foreign Policy. Social Change, 53(3), 391-398.
  18. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2023). Constitutional Order in Oligarchic Democracies: Neoliberal Rights Versus Socio-Economic Rights. Law, Culture and the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872119854142
  19. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2022), United States foreign aid and multilateralism under the Trump presidency, New Global Studies : 1-25.
  20. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2022). Human Dignity in International Relations. In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.689
  21. De Groot, Tom and Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr.  (2022). Private Military and Security Companies and the Militarization of Humanitarianism. Journal of Developing Societies.
  22. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr.  (2021). Contested Spaces of Authoritarian and Illiberal Politics: Human Rights and Democracy in Crisis. Political Geography.
  23. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. & Spoldi, Elisabetta. (2021). Children in Armed Conflict: A Human Rights Crisis in Somalia. Global Jurist.
  24. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. & Hodzi, Obert. (2021). Comparing American and Chinese Foreign Aid in the Era of Rising Powers. The International Spectator.  [access here]
  25. De Groot, Tom & Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2020). Drone Warfare and the Obama Administration’s Path-Dependent Struggles on Human Rights and Counterterrorism. Interdisciplinary Political Studies. (6) 1: 167-201. Cited in the World Economic Forum’s The Global Risk Report 2023, 18th Edition
  26. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2020). Visions of Peace Amidst a Human Rights Crisis: War on Drugs in Colombia and the Philippines. Journal of Global Security Studies. [access here]
  27. Masters, Mercedes & Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2020). Human Rights and British Citizenship: The Case of Shamima Begum as Citizen to Homo Sacer.  Journal of Human Rights Practice.
  28. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2020). Competing Visions of Peace in the Age of Declining Democratization. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice. 32(4):512-520.
  29. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2019). The Decline of American Power and Donald Trump: Reflections on Human Rights, Neoliberalism, and the World Order. Geoforum June 2019: 157-166. 
  30. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2018). Beyond Paradigms: Understanding the South China Sea Dispute Using Analytic Eclecticism. In International Studies. (55)3:1-25 
  31. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2018). A Human Rights Tragedy: Strategic Localization of US Foreign Policy in Colombia. In International Relations. (32)3: 343-365
  32. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2018). The Global Politics of Human Rights: From Human Rights to Human Dignity?. In International Political Science Review. 
  33. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2018) Mutual Delegitimization: American and Chinese Development Aid in the African Continent". In The SAIS Review of International Affairs . (with Henrik Hartmann)
  34. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2018) Does US Foreign Aid Undermine Human Rights? The 'Thaksinification' of the War on Terror Discourses and the Human Rights Crisis in Thailand, 2001 to 2006. In Human Rights Review (19)1-73-95. 
  35. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2016). The Philippines 2014-2015: Domestic Politics and Foreign Relations, A Critical Review. Asia Maior. XXVI/2015: 133-155. (with Carmina Y. Untalan)
  36. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2016). Why Asia’s Oldest Democracy Is Bound to Fail. Journal of Developing Societies. (32)3: 1-26
  37. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2016). Habermasian Thinking on Civil Society and the Public Sphere in the Age of Globalization. Perspectives on Political Science. 1-7 (online version)
  38. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2014). The Social Science of Human Rights: The Need for a “Second-Image Reversed”. Third World Quarterly 35(8): 1390-1405.
  39. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2014). Bringing the Global Political Economy Back In: Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Democratic Consolidation. International Studies Perspectives 15(3): 277-296 (download here)
  40.  Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2013). Is International Labour Migration Good for Democratic Consolidation in the Global South? In Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 25(1): 97-103
  41. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2013). Social Discipline, Democracy, and Modernity: Are They All Uniquely ‘European’?. In Hamburg Review of Social Sciences 6 & 3 (7 & 1): 94-117
  42. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2011) The Chimera of Europe's Normative Power in East Asia: A Constructivist Analysis. In Central European Journal of International and Security Studies 5 (1): 69-90
 
Book Chapters (11)
  1.  Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2024). Spatial Imaginaries and Geopolitics in US–China Rivalry. In Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (ed.) (2023.). The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformations: Geographies of Rivalry. Bristol: Bristol University Press
  2. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2024). Southeast Asia and the Militarization of South China Sea. In Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (ed.) (2023.). The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformations: Geographies of Rivalry. Bristol: Bristol University Press
  3. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2024). Conclusions: Reframing the Puzzle of US-China Rivalry. In Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (ed.) (2023.). The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformations: Geographies of Rivalry. Bristol: Bristol University Press
  4. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2022). The Global Human Rights Regime: Risks and Contestations. In Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. and Irene Hadiprayitno. Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press.
  5. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2022). Human Rights at Risk in the Era of Trump and American Decline. In Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. and Irene Hadiprayitno. Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press.
  6. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2020) Human rights and humanitarian actions on the international arena. In Badie, Bertrand; Berg-Schlosser, Dirk; Morlino, Leonardo. Handbook of Political Science – A Global Perspective. London: SAGE. 
  7. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2020). with James Parisot. (Chapter 13) Contested American Dominance: Global Order in an Era of Rising Powers. In  S. A. Hamed Hosseini, Barry K. Gills, James Goodman, Sara Motta (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies. New York: Routledge.
  8. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2018). Introduction: Debating American Hegemony: Global Cooperation and Conflict. In Regilme S.S. , Parisot J. (Eds). American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers. London and New York: Routledge . 3-18.
  9. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2018). Conclusion: The Future of Global Cooperation and Conflict. In Regilme S.S., Parisot J. (Eds). American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers. London and New York: Routledge. 216-219.
  10. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2016). Global Migration as a Human Rights Issue: Prospects for Global Cooperation or Conflict? In Böckenförde, Markus, Nadja Krupke, and Philipp Michaelis (eds). A Multidisciplinary Mosaic: Reflections on Global Cooperation and Migration (Global Dialogues 13). Duisburg: Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21).
  11.  Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2013). It Takes Two to Tango: A Constructivist Analysis of EU-ASEAN Interregional Relations. In The EU: A Global Power in the Making – Europe’s Present and Future Role in a Changing World. Volume 2. Edited by Astrid B. Boening, Jan-Frederik Kremer and Aukje van Loon. Springer Publishing  (Part of the Global Power Shift Series)


Encyclopedia and General Reference Articles (6)
  1. (2019). Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. & Karla Feijoo. “Right to Dignity”. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies
  2. (2025) Regilme, Salvador Santino F.. “Aid”. Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations. Cheltenham, England. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035312283.00008
  3. (2019). Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr.  & Henrik Hartmann. “Global Shift”. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_53-2
  4. (2019). Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr.  & Elif Polat. “Right to Economic Dignity”. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_326-1
  5. (2019). Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr.  & Beate Beller. “Security State”. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies
  6. (2016) Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. “Human Rights Violations and Protection”. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi: Sage Publications.


Non-Peer Reviewed Review Essays (9)
 
  1. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr.  (2023). The Complex Social Ontology of International Law on War. International Studies Review
  2. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2020). Effectiveness and Legitimacy of International Human Rights Instruments. Human Rights Review https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-020-00590-1
  3. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr.  (2023). Entwicklungspolitik als Mittel von Großmachtinteressen? Südostasien: Zeischrift für Politik, Kultur, Dialog https://suedostasien.net/entwicklungspolitik-als-mittel-von-grossmachtinteressen/
  4. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr., (2019). The Instrumentalization of Human Rights in World Politics, International Studies Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viz061
  5. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2017) Genocide and Transitional Justice. In Human Rights Review​. (18)1: 111-116.
  6. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2011a). Review: Alfred McCoy: Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 29(4), 122-126.
  7. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2012). Bassam Tibi, Islam’s Predicament with Modernity: Religious Reform and Cultural Change. International Sociology, 27(2), 253-256.
  8. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2012b). Making Global Economic Governance Effective: Hard and Soft Law Institutions in a Crowded World. John Kirton, Marina Larionova, and Paolo Savona, eds. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, 25(1), 153-156. 
  9. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2010a). Southeast East Asia: A Sui Generis Case on the Study of Political Islam and Democratization? Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 6 (2), 157-161. 

Book Reviews (14)
  1. Regilme, S. (2025). Leigh A. Payne, Julia Zulver, and Simón Escoffier (eds.). The Right Against Rights in Latin America. New Global Studies. https://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2025-0016
  2. Regilme, S. (2024) Marlies Glasius. Authoritarian Practices in the Global Age. New Global Studies. https://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2024-0009
  3. Newman A., Debre M., Naylor T., Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr & Viola L.A. (2022), Review of: Viola L.A. (2020) The closure of the international system: how institutions create political equalities and hierarchies, H-Diplo Roundtable Review 28(49): 1-27. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/10521264/h-diplo-roundtable-xxiii-49-viola%C2%A0-closure-international-system
  4. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr., (2019). Constitutional democracy in crisis? Democratization, DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2019.1687446
  5. Regilme, Salvador (2019). Authoritarianism: three inquiries in critical theory. Democratization. DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2019.1635585  
  6. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2016). The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia. in Political Studies Review. (14)1: 89.
  7. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2013) Book Review: Anja Jetschke: Human Rights and State Security: Indonesia and the Philippines. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 32 (1): 141-143.
  8. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2012). Democracy and Economic Openness in an Interconnected System. In Political Studies Review. 10: 420-421
  9. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2012). Rajah Rasiah and Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt (eds.), The New Political Economy of Southeast Asia. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010). CEU Political Science Journal, 7(2), 230-232.
  10. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2012). Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder. In Millennium Journal of International Studies 40 (3) 688-690 
  11. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2012). Governing the Other: Exploring the Discourse of Democracy in a Multiverse of Reason. In Kyoto Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.1 (2) 339-336
  12. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2011). Obstacles to Democratization in Southeast Asia: A Study of the Nation State, Regional and Global Order by Erik Paul. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 230pp., £57.50, ISBN 978 0 230 24181 7. Political Studies Review, 9(3), 439-440.
  13. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2012). Review: Currency and Contest in East Asia : The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism. East Asia Integration Studies
  14. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2011). Review: Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaïd, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Ranciere, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Zizek Democracy in What State? Marx and Philosophy Review of Books. 
  15. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2009). Review: Bilveer Singh on the “Taliban” of Southeast Asia. Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 9(2), 89-92.
  16. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2010). Investing in Miracles: El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the Philippines. Quezon City, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila University Press. Philippine Political Science Journal.  31 (54) 153-162

Policy Memo and Other Media Articles 
  1. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025). Venezuela is Trump’s Test Case for Restoring American Primacy. International Policy Digest. https://intpolicydigest.org/venezuela-is-trump-s-test-case-for-restoring-american-primacy/
  2. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025). The Global War on Drugs as Authoritarian Statecraft and Its Human Rights Costs. E-International Relations. https://www.e-ir.info/2025/10/11/the-global-war-on-drugs-as-authoritarian-statecraft-and-its-human-rights-costs/
  3. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025). Numbers Over Rights: How Trump’s Drug War Travels. International Policy Digest. https://intpolicydigest.org/numbers-over-rights-how-trump-s-drug-war-travels/
  4. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025). Naked Oligarchy: How billionaires captured power and hollowed out democracy. Public Seminar. https://publicseminar.org/2025/06/how-billionaires-capture-democracy/
  5. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025). Oligarchic Constitutionalism in Europe? A Warning from Within. E-International Relations. https://www.e-ir.info/2025/06/30/opinion-oligarchic-constitutionalism-in-europe-a-warning-from-within/
  6. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025). Kijk voorbij de waan van het grote geld [Look past the delusions of big money]. MARE: Leids Universitair Weekblad. https://www.mareonline.nl/opinie/kijk-voorbij-de-waan-van-het-grote-geld/
  7. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025). The EU needs to research its own oligarchic capture. EUObserver. https://euobserver.com/news/arab37afb7
  8. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025). Why the Pandemic Treaty Must Reclaim Human Rights and Equity. E-International Relations. https://www.e-ir.info/2025/04/27/why-the-pandemic-treaty-must-reclaim-human-rights-and-equity/
  9. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025). The global assault on universities is an attack on democracy. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01260-3
  10. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025). Europe’s Existential Choice: Democracy or Far-Right Chaos? Social Europe. https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-existential-choice-democracy-or-far-right-chaos
  11. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2025).Tech Imperialism Reloaded: AI, Colonial Legacies, and the Global South. E-International Relations. https://www.e-ir.info/2025/02/17/tech-imperialism-reloaded-ai-colonial-legacies-and-the-global-south/#google_vignette
  12. Regilme, Salvador Santino. (2024). Human Rights, Inequality, and Public Health: An Integrated Approach. The SAIS Review of International Affairs. (web edition)
  13. Regilme, Salvador Santino Jr. F. (2021). American Foreign Aid and its Consequences on Human Rights Protection in Southeast Asia. Asia Global Online. University of Hong Kong.
  14. Regilme, Salvador Santino Jr. F. and Matt Evans (2020). Interview with Salvador Santino Regilme Jr. in E-International Relations Magazine.
  15. Regilme, Salvador Santino Jr. F. (2019). Dignity and the Rise of Authoritarianism. Leiden International Relations Blog.
  16. Regilme, Salvador Santino Jr. F. (2019). The Crisis of Legitimacy in Trump's America. Leiden International Relations Blog.
  17. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2018) Contesting American Power: Beijing’s Challenge in South China Sea Disputes, E-International Relations . 
  18. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2018). Using foreign aid for state repression in Thailand. OpenGlobalRights. 
  19. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2018). With James Parisot. American Power in the Era of Trump. Global Policy Journal. Durham University. (online magazine).
  20. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2018). With James Parisot. US Hegemony and Rising Powers in the Era of Trump. E-International Relations. (online magazine). 
  21. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2018). With James Parisot. Is American Power in Decline? Rising Powers in the Era of Trump. Rising Powers in Global Governance. 
  22. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2010). Schierkolk, J., Grauvogel, J., Ziso, E., Strothmann, P., Hübner, D., & Regilme, S. S. F. (2010). Transatlantic Leadership by Example: Toward Inclusive Climate Change Policy. Published by the Atlantic Community, e.V. Berlin
  23. Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. (2010). Making Sense of China. Global Politics: An International Affairs Magazine.

​Working Papers/ Research Projects in Progress
(The working titles have been deliberately changed to protect the integrity of the peer review.) 

Monographs
  1. War on Drugs, War on Dignity – under review and in writing phase
  2. Dehumanization: humanity and dignity deprivation in global crises – in planning phase
  3. Superrich Individuals in Global Constitutional Transformation – in planning phase
  4. Human Dignity in International Relations - in planning phase

Journal Articles/Book Chapters

  1. Paper: United States Foreign Aid in Egypt: Converging Interests in Regime Consolidation (with Pietro Marzo) – in preparation
  2. Paper: Climate Change, Ecocide, and the Rise of Environmental Refugees: The Case of Syria (with M. Lopez Bremme) – under review
  3. Paper: Dutch Apology for Slavery (with Bart-Jan Zandee) – in preparation
  4. Paper: From Aspirational Equality to Militarized Governance
  5. Paper: Duterte and the Global Politics of Dehumanization
  6. Paper: Duterte’s War on Drugs, Instrumental Sovereignty, and the Architecture of Global Impunity
  7. Paper: Billionaires and the Public Sphere
  8. Paper: Decolonizing Human Rights and Global Development — under review
  9. Book Chapter: Philippine foreign policy, global governance, and the United Nations (invited chapter contribution - Edited volume by Kraft, Tanyag, and Misalucha-Willoughby Routledge Handbook on Philippine Foreign Policy)
  10. Book Chapter: From Global Cooperation to Strategic Retrenchment: The Breakdown of the Euro-American Development Consensus under Trump’s Second Term. (invited chapter contribution to edited volume by Reidar Staupe: Global Cooperation in Times of Crisis: Grasping the changing mood of the world)
  11. Book Chapter: Geopolitics at the Margins: US–China Rivalry and the North–South Divide (invited chapter contribution to edited volume - Edited by Laure dela Cour, Bidzina Lebanidze, Tiffany Williams: The Routledge Handbook of New Geopolitics in the Polycrisis World)
  12. Book Chapter: Stratified Humanity: The Global War on Drugs and the Unequal Politics of Human Rights (invited chapter contribution to edited volume: Edited by Anthony Langlois; Understanding the Politics of Human Rights)
  13. Book Chapter: Interest Convergence and the Role of Foreign Aid in Gray Zone Conflicts. (invited chapter contribution to edited volume: Edited by David Carment and Dani Belo: Handbook of Gray Zone Conflict)
  14. Edited Volumes
  15. Book project (textbook, edited volume): International Relations: New Perspectives in Global Politics– in planning phase (commissioned and contracted by SAGE)
  16. Book project (edited volume): Belonging Denied – Citizenship Revocation and Statelessness as Human Rights Deprivation – (contracted by De Gruyter)

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RESEARCH AGENDA

My research critically examines how global power asymmetries—shaped by foreign aid, geopolitical competition, economic inequality, and state violence—undermine human rights, democratic governance, and human dignity, particularly in the Global South. By integrating insights from International Relations, political economy, and critical human rights studies, I explore how dominant actors—whether states, corporations, or elites—deploy coercion, economic influence, and technological control to sustain unequal global orders. At the same time, my work seeks to uncover the structural conditions that enable resistance, alternative governance models, and pathways toward justice in an era of rising authoritarianism, oligarchy, and digital capitalism.
​Research Agenda: Three Fundamental Questions Shaping My WorkAt the core of my research lies a commitment to understanding how global power asymmetries shape human rights, governance, and justice. My work is driven by three fundamental questions that bind together my past and future scholarship, offering a comprehensive framework for interrogating the intersection of international politics, economic inequality, and human dignity.

1. How do global powers use economic and security tools—such as foreign aid, coercion, and surveillance—to shape political and human rights outcomes?Global governance is not merely about formal institutions; it is about the underlying power structures that dictate which states, actors, and populations thrive or suffer. My research interrogates how major powers—particularly the United States and China—wield foreign aid, economic leverage, and security cooperation as instruments to entrench geopolitical dominance while often exacerbating human rights violations. Aid Imperium (2021) exposed how U.S. foreign assistance facilitated regime survival in Southeast Asia at the expense of human rights. My forthcoming book, United States and Chinese Foreign Assistance and Diplomacy: Aid for Dominance, expands this inquiry by examining the strategic logic of aid competition between these two global hegemons. This line of research fundamentally challenges the notion that foreign aid is apolitical or benevolent, instead highlighting its role in consolidating authoritarianism, enabling state violence, and perpetuating dependency.
Moreover, my work on the Global War on Drugs illustrates how security partnerships between dominant and recipient states reinforce repression under the guise of counterterrorism and anti-narcotics policies. As I advance this agenda, my focus extends to how digital surveillance, artificial intelligence, and military technologies further entrench asymmetrical global governance, enabling new forms of authoritarian control.

2. How do economic and political elites sustain oligarchic dominance, and what does this mean for democracy and human dignity?Socioeconomic inequalities are not just domestic concerns—it is a structuring force in global politics that shapes access to rights, resources, and governance. My research interrogates how oligarchic power structures and neoliberal legal frameworks have led to a global order where wealth and influence are concentrated among a few, while political institutions remain increasingly inaccessible to marginalized populations. My recent article, Europe’s Super-Rich: Towards an Oligarchic Constitutional Order, examines how extreme wealth accumulation translates into political dominance, fundamentally undermining democratic governance.

Building on this, my forthcoming work theorizes the role of super-rich individuals in shaping constitutional orders—examining how financial elites use legal and institutional mechanisms to entrench their influence, erode socio-economic rights, and weaken democratic accountability. My research advances the argument that contemporary democracies, particularly in the Global North, are evolving toward oligarchic constitutionalism—where economic power determines legal and political outcomes, often at the expense of human dignity and justice.
Looking ahead, I aim to develop a global analysis of statelessness and citizenship revocation as a mechanism through which states reinforce exclusionary politics and maintain elite control. This ties into broader concerns about the instrumentalization of sovereignty, migration governance, and the legal architecture of human rights deprivation.

3. How does the dehumanization of marginalized populations justify global injustice, and what are the pathways to resistance?At the heart of global inequality is the politics of dehumanization—the process through which states, corporations, and elites deny full moral and political personhood to vulnerable populations. My research examines how dehumanization legitimizes war, repression, economic exploitation, and technological control. In my article, Crisis Politics of Dehumanization During COVID-19, I mapped how governments and global institutions framed certain populations as disposable, justifying policy choices that exacerbated suffering and deepened existing inequalities.
A central focus of my future work is my forthcoming monograph, War on Drugs, War on Dignity, which explores how the rhetoric and policies of the global drug war have systematically undermined the dignity and rights of marginalized communities. Expanding this, my research on AI colonialism examines how emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence, algorithmic governance, and digital surveillance—serve as contemporary instruments of dehumanization, particularly in the Global South. My article, Artificial Intelligence Colonialism: Environmental Damage, Labor Exploitation, and Human Rights Crises in the Global South, illustrates how AI-driven economic structures reproduce historical patterns of imperial domination, turning human beings into data points to be extracted, manipulated, and controlled.
My broader agenda is not just about diagnosing injustice, but also about uncovering pathways for resistance. Whether through alternative governance models, grassroots activism, or legal frameworks that reclaim human dignity, my work seeks to engage critically with the question: What alternative structures of power and governance are possible, and how can they be realized?

Conclusion: Towards a More Just Global OrderMy research agenda is not confined to a single discipline or methodology; rather, it is fundamentally analytically eclectic, bridging International Relations, political economy, and critical human rights scholarship. Whether examining foreign aid and great power competition, elite-driven politics, or the politics of dehumanization, my work is unified by a broader goal: to uncover the structural logics and macro-processes that sustain global injustice while illuminating pathways toward a more equitable world. By investigating how power is deployed, how rights are subverted, and how dignity is systematically undermined, my scholarship seeks not only to analyze the existing global order, but to challenge it—opening space for more just, inclusive, and humane alternatives.