Santino Salvador Regilme

Santino Salvador Regilme is a tenured Associate Professor and Program Chair of International Relations based at the Institute of History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. 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. His most recent monograph is United States and Chinese Foreign Assistance and Diplomacy: Aid for Dominance (Manchester University Press, 2026, coauthored with Obert Hodzi). His expertise has been featured in CNN International, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, and many other media outlets.