Salvador Santino F Regilme
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 330584 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Salvador Santino F Regilme |
| NOMBRES | Salvador Santino F |
| APELLIDO | Regilme |
| FIRMA | REGILME S S F |
| AFILIACIONES | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6597-2642 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 122 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Dehumanization
Dehumanization exposes how global systems of power erode human dignity by legitimizing exclusion, subjugation, and violence against marginalized populations. It operates through narratives and practices that rationalize systemic inequality and sustain hierarchies of humanity. Unlike racialization and economic injustice, which are largely structural, dehumanization is an actor-driven process that actively produces and normalizes oppression. Eviden…
Post‐Humanitarian Militarism and the End of Development
This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment. Drawing on historical sociology and decolonial critique, the article argues that postwar development legitimated global stratification by promising political reco…
The digital oligarchic public sphere
This article develops the concept of the digital oligarchic public sphere to analyze how tech billionaires, through proprietary algorithms, platform architectures, and data infrastructures, assert control over what counts as visible, credible, and contestable knowledge. Drawing on Habermasian public-sphere theory, neo-Gramscian hegemony, and surveillance capitalism literature, the analysis identifies three mechanisms: algorithmic hegemony, episte…
United States foreign aid in Egypt
Leigh A. Payne, Julia Zulver, and Simón Escoffier
History and International Studies 1900-present
Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe
This article explains why the Netherlands, uniquely among major European states, issued a sovereign apology for its role in transatlantic slavery in December 2022 while comparable states, notably the United Kingdom, have not. Using process tracing and an analytically eclectic framework, the apology activation model, or AAM, identifies three interlocking conditions that activate sovereign apologies: institutional openness that admits minoritized v…
Climate Change, Ecocide, and the Rise of Environmental Refugees
This article revisits the climate-conflict-displacement nexus by analyzing the Syrian Civil War as a case of climate-exacerbated state collapse. Rejecting linear causality, it asks: how does climate-induced stress contribute to armed conflict and forced migration, and how might these dynamics be understood through ecocide? Drawing on international relations, legal studies, and environmental studies, we develop a framework positioning environmenta…
Militarised punishment
How did the United States (U.S.) under President Donald Trump (2017–2021) justify and escalate the militarization of U.S. drug policy? Focusing on Trump’s first term as President, this article argues that Trump’s war on drugs reinforced punitive approaches by fusing narcotics enforcement with racialized governance, border securitization and geopolitical coercion. By framing drug-related crime as an existential threat, his administration scapegoat…
The Hague as a Mirror
Europe's Super‐Rich
This article addresses an important but understudied puzzle in European Union Studies: the super‐rich's influence on domestic and transnational discourses, policies and institutions for wealth defence, security and legitimacy. It examines the super‐rich's impact on democratic governance and human rights claims of marginalized groups, and how states, civil society and non‐oligarchic entities contest oligarchic rule. The article proposes a research…
Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation
This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of academic life today. Drawing on personal experiences of academic migration-from the Philippines and the Uni…
The global war on drugs
This article presents an analytical framework that explains how militarism emerged as the prevailing paradigm in narcotic governance and its implications for human rights. The framework comprises four interconnected mechanisms-dehumanization, moralistic justifications, intensified state coercion, and a culture of impunity-that uphold and legitimize militarized drug policies. Dehumanization portrays populations as expendable threats, while moralis…
Marlies Glasius
Covid-19 pandemic and competitive authoritarian regimes
How do competitive authoritarian regimes in the Global South respond to the COVID-19 pandemic? How do these policy responses facilitate human rights deterioration in societies that are already facing democratic regression during the pre-pandemic period? Examining evidence from the Philippines and Nicaragua during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article demonstrates that competitive authoritarian regimes have reinforced the deterioration of democratic…
State Violence in Narcotic Drug Governance
This reflection piece sheds light on expanded state violence in global narcotic governance, offering valuable insights to perpetrator studies. It expands the focus by acknowledging the state as a collective perpetrator within the framework of global narcotic regulation. With its near-monopoly on the use of force, the state possesses significant resources to inflict violence on citizens, leading to increased number of civilian fatalities, sufferin…
United States Foreign Aid and Multilateralism Under the Trump Presidency
This article addresses two key questions concerning US foreign aid under the 45th US President, Donald Trump (2017–21): Did the Trump administration radically restructure the foreign aid apparatus of the US government amid the recent reemergence of China as a key state actor in international development and global governance? If so, how and under which conditions did the US, as the world’s largest foreign aid donor, deal with the new challenges p…
The Complex Social Ontology of International Law on War
Journal Article The Complex Social Ontology of International Law on War Get access Ka Lok Yip's ( 2022) The Use of Force against Individuals in War under International Law: A Social-Ontological Approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Salvador Santino F Regilme, Jr. Salvador Santino F Regilme, Jr. Associate Professor of International Relations Institute for History, Leiden University, the Netherlands https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6597-2642 Search…
Crisis politics of dehumanisation during Covid-19
The COVID-19 global pandemic is understood to be a multidimensional crisis, and yet undertheorised is how it reinforced the politics of dehumanisation. This article proposes an original framework that explains how dehumanisation undermines the human dignity of individuals with minoritised socio-economic identities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The framework identifies four interrelated mechanisms of crisis-driven dehumanisation: threat constructi…
Systemic Hypocrisy in United States Foreign Policy
Why is contemporary United States foreign policy systemically hypocritical? This essay offers a legal realist perspective, which considers human rights and democracy-oriented narratives as morally appealing meta-discourses that are subject to reframing, weaponisation, and instrumentalisation by a wide variety of contending political actors in pursuit of concrete material or policy objectives. The perspective of legal realism is used in the case o…
Private Military and Security Companies and The Militarization of Humanitarianism
The widespread use of private military and security companies (PMSCs) in United Nations peacebuilding missions often undermines the effectiveness of these missions. PMSCs tend to encourage, in unnecessary ways, what is called security risk management and promote the militarization of humanitarian efforts. They encourage humanitarian aid organizations to protect their personnel with barbed wire fences, security guards, armed convoys, and secure ai…
Comparing US and Chinese Foreign Aid in the Era of Rising Powers
China is emerging as a key state actor in international development – a sector that has been dominated by the United States for decades. US and Chinese foreign aid programs can be compared on the basis of several benchmarks: 1) official state definition and accounting of foreign aid programs; 2) historical foundations and origins; 3) sectoral distribution, particularly in terms of the professed goals and objectives of the aid program; 4) nature o…
Aid Imperium
Contested spaces of illiberal and authoritarian politics
The global moral appeal of human rights and democratic governance appears to be in severe crisis. In both the Global North and the South, many countries have witnessed the rise of racist, sexist, and illiberal politicians into the highest positions in the government. As one of Asia's oldest electoral democracies, the Philippines is not an exception in this global pattern of decline in civil liberties and democratic governance. Considering the cas…
Constitutional democracy in crisis
In this thick and field-defining volume, some of the well-known and established scholars of legal studies and political science try to make sense of the current state of constitutional democracy wo
Authoritarianism
Liberal democracy is under threat.In Latin America, Brazil under Jair Bolsanaro's far-right policies and discourses have introduced policies that are seen as detrimental to the welfare of many vulnerable groups including indigenous populations.In the Asia-Pacific, two of the most vibrant electoral democracies in the region -Thailand and the Philippines-have recently backtracked from its democratic commitments and have violently repressed peaceful…
Constitutional democracy in crisis
In this thick and field-defining volume, some of the well-known and established scholars of legal studies and political science try to make sense of the current state of constitutional democracy wo
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
What is the relationship between Thailand’s human rights crisis during Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s leadership (2001–2006) and the USA-led post-9/11 war on terror? Why did the human rights situation dramatically deteriorate after the Thaksin regime publicly supported the Bush administration’s war on terror and consequently received US counterterror assistance? This article offers two conceptual arguments that jointly demonstrate a constitu…
Authoritarianism
Liberal democracy is under threat.In Latin America, Brazil under Jair Bolsanaro's far-right policies and discourses have introduced policies that are seen as detrimental to the welfare of many vulnerable groups including indigenous populations.In the Asia-Pacific, two of the most vibrant electoral democracies in the region -Thailand and the Philippines-have recently backtracked from its democratic commitments and have violently repressed peaceful…
The decline of American power and Donald Trump
Contested spaces of illiberal and authoritarian politics
The global moral appeal of human rights and democratic governance appears to be in severe crisis. In both the Global North and the South, many countries have witnessed the rise of racist, sexist, and illiberal politicians into the highest positions in the government. As one of Asia's oldest electoral democracies, the Philippines is not an exception in this global pattern of decline in civil liberties and democratic governance. Considering the cas…
Visions of Peace Amidst a Human Rights Crisis
Peace is one of most widely used yet highly contested concepts in contemporary politics. What constitutes peace? That broad analytic inquiry motivates this article, which focuses on the contentious discourses of peace within a society besieged by widespread trafficking and use of illegal drugs. Focusing on the illegal drug problem in Colombia and the Philippines, the central puzzle of this paper constitutes two fundamental questions: How do state…
Bringing the Global Political Economy Back In
How do we consolidate developing democratic regimes in the Global South so that the life expectancies of these regimes are considerably sustainable? What have been the key epistemological and normative shortcomings of the mainstream scholarship of democratization? How can we overcome these limitations? Is it necessary to consider the global political economy as a fertile source for deducing some explanatory variables that will help us understand …
Constitutional Order in Oligarchic Democracies
What is the relationship between constitutional order and the emergence of oligarchic politics in contemporary democratic societies? How and to what extent does constitutional design contribute to oligarchic politics in contemporary liberal democratic states? Focusing on constitutional discourses, rather than the legal positivist interpretation of the constitution (or constitutions as text), I maintain that state constitutions should be understoo…
Crisis politics of dehumanisation during Covid-19
The COVID-19 global pandemic is understood to be a multidimensional crisis, and yet undertheorised is how it reinforced the politics of dehumanisation. This article proposes an original framework that explains how dehumanisation undermines the human dignity of individuals with minoritised socio-economic identities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The framework identifies four interrelated mechanisms of crisis-driven dehumanisation: threat constructi…
Beyond Paradigms
Why did claimant states in the South China Sea (SCS) dispute, especially China, recently increase its militarization activities, in unprecedented ways that were relatively absent in the previous decades? Espousing an analytically eclectic explanation rather than using one single International Relations (IR) paradigm, this essay demonstrates three key exploratory arguments. First, the enduring Chinese military insecurity from American dominance in…
The social science of human rights
What are the causes of state-initiated human rights violations? Are intra-national factors alone causally responsible for the emergence of human rights crises in the developing world? This article critically examines contemporary social science literature on the causes of human rights compliance and violations, particularly in the fields of international relations and comparative politics. It underscores the finding that the current research agen…
Why Asia’s Oldest Democracy is Bound to Fail
Despite having the earliest exposure to electoral democratic practices in the Asia-Pacific region, the Philippines remains to be one of the least stable democracies in the Global South. Notwithstanding the return of electoral democracy in 1986 after two decades of authoritarian rule, the Philippine state has yet to consolidate its democratic regime. In view of the emerging literature on post-1986 Philippine politics, this highlights the defective…
A human rights tragedy
How and to what extent do ideas and political discourses shape bilateral cooperation between a powerful state and its weaker ally? Why do weaker states act in ways that diverge from the expectations and preferences of the powerful state despite the contractual agreement borne out of bilateral cooperation? Drawing perspectives from constructivism and principal-agent framework, this article provides a conceptual-interpretative analysis of post-9/11…
Is International Labor Migration Good for Democratic Consolidation
We [Filipinos] are now a quasi-wandering people, pilgrims or prospectors staking our lives and futures all over the world—in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North and South America, Australia and
Europe's Super‐Rich
This article addresses an important but understudied puzzle in European Union Studies: the super‐rich's influence on domestic and transnational discourses, policies and institutions for wealth defence, security and legitimacy. It examines the super‐rich's impact on democratic governance and human rights claims of marginalized groups, and how states, civil society and non‐oligarchic entities contest oligarchic rule. The article proposes a research…
Covid-19 pandemic and competitive authoritarian regimes
How do competitive authoritarian regimes in the Global South respond to the COVID-19 pandemic? How do these policy responses facilitate human rights deterioration in societies that are already facing democratic regression during the pre-pandemic period? Examining evidence from the Philippines and Nicaragua during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article demonstrates that competitive authoritarian regimes have reinforced the deterioration of democratic…
Private Military and Security Companies and The Militarization of Humanitarianism
The widespread use of private military and security companies (PMSCs) in United Nations peacebuilding missions often undermines the effectiveness of these missions. PMSCs tend to encourage, in unnecessary ways, what is called security risk management and promote the militarization of humanitarian efforts. They encourage humanitarian aid organizations to protect their personnel with barbed wire fences, security guards, armed convoys, and secure ai…
Competing Visions of Peace Amidst Declining Democratization
What is peace? In the age of decreasing global appetite for liberal democracy, how does the notion of peace prefigure in the political discourse of emerging far-right politicians? The concept of peace constitutes one of the most contentious discursive tools in modern politics. Peace is a fuzzy meta-discourse, which means that its discursive invocation in the public sphere facilitates considerable difficulties in distinguishing it from other relat…
The Instrumentalization of Human Rights in World Politics
Habermasian Thinking on Civil Society and the Public Sphere in the Age of Globalization
In today's age of increasing globalization and the emergence of global public policy issues, the concepts of civil society, public sphere, and the legitimacy of the legal system require further analytical scrutiny and philosophical reflection. As such, this article reflects on how the renowned German philosopher and social theorist Jürgen Habermas, in his Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (1996), ad…
Bilveer Singh on the "Taliban" of Southeast Asia
Book Review: Singh, Bilveer. (2007). The Talibanization of South East Asia: Losing the War on Terror to Islamist Extremists. U.S.A.: Praeger Security International
Making Global Economic Governance Effective
Bassam Tibi, Islam’s Predicament with Modernity
In this book, Erik Bleich has brought together a set of papers, mostly written from the perspective of political science
Bringing the Global Political Economy Back In
How do we consolidate developing democratic regimes in the Global South so that the life expectancies of these regimes are considerably sustainable? What have been the key epistemological and normative shortcomings of the mainstream scholarship of democratization? How can we overcome these limitations? Is it necessary to consider the global political economy as a fertile source for deducing some explanatory variables that will help us understand …
Is International Labor Migration Good for Democratic Consolidation
We [Filipinos] are now a quasi-wandering people, pilgrims or prospectors staking our lives and futures all over the world—in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North and South America, Australia and
The social science of human rights
What are the causes of state-initiated human rights violations? Are intra-national factors alone causally responsible for the emergence of human rights crises in the developing world? This article critically examines contemporary social science literature on the causes of human rights compliance and violations, particularly in the fields of international relations and comparative politics. It underscores the finding that the current research agen…
Why Asia’s Oldest Democracy is Bound to Fail
Despite having the earliest exposure to electoral democratic practices in the Asia-Pacific region, the Philippines remains to be one of the least stable democracies in the Global South. Notwithstanding the return of electoral democracy in 1986 after two decades of authoritarian rule, the Philippine state has yet to consolidate its democratic regime. In view of the emerging literature on post-1986 Philippine politics, this highlights the defective…
Genocide and Transitional Justice
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
What is the relationship between Thailand’s human rights crisis during Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s leadership (2001–2006) and the USA-led post-9/11 war on terror? Why did the human rights situation dramatically deteriorate after the Thaksin regime publicly supported the Bush administration’s war on terror and consequently received US counterterror assistance? This article offers two conceptual arguments that jointly demonstrate a constitu…
American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers
Beyond Paradigms
Why did claimant states in the South China Sea (SCS) dispute, especially China, recently increase its militarization activities, in unprecedented ways that were relatively absent in the previous decades? Espousing an analytically eclectic explanation rather than using one single International Relations (IR) paradigm, this essay demonstrates three key exploratory arguments. First, the enduring Chinese military insecurity from American dominance in…
Habermasian Thinking on Civil Society and the Public Sphere in the Age of Globalization
In today's age of increasing globalization and the emergence of global public policy issues, the concepts of civil society, public sphere, and the legitimacy of the legal system require further analytical scrutiny and philosophical reflection. As such, this article reflects on how the renowned German philosopher and social theorist Jürgen Habermas, in his Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (1996), ad…
A human rights tragedy
How and to what extent do ideas and political discourses shape bilateral cooperation between a powerful state and its weaker ally? Why do weaker states act in ways that diverge from the expectations and preferences of the powerful state despite the contractual agreement borne out of bilateral cooperation? Drawing perspectives from constructivism and principal-agent framework, this article provides a conceptual-interpretative analysis of post-9/11…
The global politics of human rights
This review essay highlights the limitations and possibilities of a global human rights order based on analysis of five recently published books about human rights. The main argument states that reform of the global human rights order requires not only a shift to a more emancipatory notion of human dignity but also an emphasis on global justice and material compensation within and between the Global North and Global South. Human dignity, in this …
Constitutional Order in Oligarchic Democracies
What is the relationship between constitutional order and the emergence of oligarchic politics in contemporary democratic societies? How and to what extent does constitutional design contribute to oligarchic politics in contemporary liberal democratic states? Focusing on constitutional discourses, rather than the legal positivist interpretation of the constitution (or constitutions as text), I maintain that state constitutions should be understoo…
The Instrumentalization of Human Rights in World Politics
The decline of American power and Donald Trump
Visions of Peace Amidst a Human Rights Crisis
Peace is one of most widely used yet highly contested concepts in contemporary politics. What constitutes peace? That broad analytic inquiry motivates this article, which focuses on the contentious discourses of peace within a society besieged by widespread trafficking and use of illegal drugs. Focusing on the illegal drug problem in Colombia and the Philippines, the central puzzle of this paper constitutes two fundamental questions: How do state…
Effectiveness and Legitimacy of International Human Rights Instruments
Competing Visions of Peace Amidst Declining Democratization
What is peace? In the age of decreasing global appetite for liberal democracy, how does the notion of peace prefigure in the political discourse of emerging far-right politicians? The concept of peace constitutes one of the most contentious discursive tools in modern politics. Peace is a fuzzy meta-discourse, which means that its discursive invocation in the public sphere facilitates considerable difficulties in distinguishing it from other relat…
Comparing US and Chinese Foreign Aid in the Era of Rising Powers
China is emerging as a key state actor in international development – a sector that has been dominated by the United States for decades. US and Chinese foreign aid programs can be compared on the basis of several benchmarks: 1) official state definition and accounting of foreign aid programs; 2) historical foundations and origins; 3) sectoral distribution, particularly in terms of the professed goals and objectives of the aid program; 4) nature o…
Aid Imperium
Contested spaces of illiberal and authoritarian politics
The global moral appeal of human rights and democratic governance appears to be in severe crisis. In both the Global North and the South, many countries have witnessed the rise of racist, sexist, and illiberal politicians into the highest positions in the government. As one of Asia's oldest electoral democracies, the Philippines is not an exception in this global pattern of decline in civil liberties and democratic governance. Considering the cas…
Private Military and Security Companies and The Militarization of Humanitarianism
The widespread use of private military and security companies (PMSCs) in United Nations peacebuilding missions often undermines the effectiveness of these missions. PMSCs tend to encourage, in unnecessary ways, what is called security risk management and promote the militarization of humanitarian efforts. They encourage humanitarian aid organizations to protect their personnel with barbed wire fences, security guards, armed convoys, and secure ai…
State Violence in Narcotic Drug Governance
This reflection piece sheds light on expanded state violence in global narcotic governance, offering valuable insights to perpetrator studies. It expands the focus by acknowledging the state as a collective perpetrator within the framework of global narcotic regulation. With its near-monopoly on the use of force, the state possesses significant resources to inflict violence on citizens, leading to increased number of civilian fatalities, sufferin…
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