Salvador Santino Regilme
@ssregilme.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Chair, International Relations Program (Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities, Institute for History)
| #HumanRights #ForeignAid | Working on two new books: #GlobalDrugWars + #AidForDominance
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| #HumanRights #ForeignAid | Working on two new books: #GlobalDrugWars + #AidForDominance
http://santinoregilme.weebly.com
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How much power do Europe's super-rich wield over the constitutional order? My latest article in @jcms-eu.bsky.social explores the growing influence of oligarchic interests. Can Europe be seen as an oligarchic constitutional order? doi.org/10.1111/jcms... #EUStudies #Oligarchy #HumanRights
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How does climate-induced stress fuel conflict & displacement? Malena López Bremme & @ssregilme.bsky.social examine Syria as a case of ecocide, showing how drought & mismanagement intensified war & migration. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/PAiCLTg
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
Climate Change, Ecocide, and the Rise of Environmental Refugees: The Case of Syria - Malena López Bremme, Salvador Santino Regilme, 2025
This article revisits the climate-conflict-displacement nexus by analyzing the Syrian Civil War as a case of climate-exacerbated state collapse. Rejecting linea...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
How does climate-induced stress fuel conflict & displacement? Malena López Bremme & @ssregilme.bsky.social examine Syria as a case of ecocide, showing how drought & mismanagement intensified war & migration. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/PAiCLTg
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
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How does climate-induced stress fuel conflict & displacement? Malena López Bremme & @ssregilme.bsky.social examine Syria as a case of ecocide, showing how drought & mismanagement intensified war & migration. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/PAiCLTg
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
How does climate-induced stress fuel conflict & displacement? Malena López Bremme & @ssregilme.bsky.social examine Syria as a case of ecocide, showing how drought & mismanagement intensified war & migration. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/PAiCLTg
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
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📖NOW OUT IN PRINT📖
Connective Action and the Rise of the Far Right
Feat. my chapter with Ulrike Klinger on "In-Groups and Outrage" & how various types of network connectivity are radicalising right-wing parties!
The digital version is open access, and available here:
academic.oup.com/book/60493
Connective Action and the Rise of the Far Right
Feat. my chapter with Ulrike Klinger on "In-Groups and Outrage" & how various types of network connectivity are radicalising right-wing parties!
The digital version is open access, and available here:
academic.oup.com/book/60493
September 1, 2025 at 7:41 AM
📖NOW OUT IN PRINT📖
Connective Action and the Rise of the Far Right
Feat. my chapter with Ulrike Klinger on "In-Groups and Outrage" & how various types of network connectivity are radicalising right-wing parties!
The digital version is open access, and available here:
academic.oup.com/book/60493
Connective Action and the Rise of the Far Right
Feat. my chapter with Ulrike Klinger on "In-Groups and Outrage" & how various types of network connectivity are radicalising right-wing parties!
The digital version is open access, and available here:
academic.oup.com/book/60493
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Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
August 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
How did the United States (U.S.) under President Donald Trump (2017–2021) justify and escalate the militarization of U.S. drug policy?
Militarised punishment: the Trump administration’s escalation of the U.S. war on drugs
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 argu...
www.tandfonline.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
How did the United States (U.S.) under President Donald Trump (2017–2021) justify and escalate the militarization of U.S. drug policy?
"Trump’s war on drugs during his first term performed an ideological war that had lethal consequences—mobilizing fear, justifying racialized punishment, and projecting authoritarian resolve—while leaving underlying structural crises largely unaddressed." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Militarised punishment: the Trump administration’s escalation of the U.S. war on drugs
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 argu...
www.tandfonline.com
July 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Trump’s war on drugs during his first term performed an ideological war that had lethal consequences—mobilizing fear, justifying racialized punishment, and projecting authoritarian resolve—while leaving underlying structural crises largely unaddressed." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"The university is not a sanctuary; it is a frontline site in the global struggle over justice and human rights. To study global structures of power without acknowledging how our own institutions are shaped by them is not an act of neutrality—it is a failure of scholarly responsibility."
rawing on personal experiences of academic migration, this article explores how authoritarian logics are embedded in institutions often assumed to offer refuge, including the university.
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
July 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"The university is not a sanctuary; it is a frontline site in the global struggle over justice and human rights. To study global structures of power without acknowledging how our own institutions are shaped by them is not an act of neutrality—it is a failure of scholarly responsibility."
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This is just appalling, disgusting, gutter racism.
Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.
June 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is just appalling, disgusting, gutter racism.
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𝗢𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗿𝘆: 𝗨𝗦 🆚 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮
@ssregilme.bsky.social (@leidenhumanities.bsky.social) examines how the trade war between the US and China is both used as a political tool, and reinforces inequality - in this Transforming Society blog @brisunipress.bsky.social 👇
@geopolitieknu.bsky.social
@ssregilme.bsky.social (@leidenhumanities.bsky.social) examines how the trade war between the US and China is both used as a political tool, and reinforces inequality - in this Transforming Society blog @brisunipress.bsky.social 👇
@geopolitieknu.bsky.social
Oligarchic rivalry: US–China tariffs and the global politics of inequality - Transforming Society
Salvador Santino Regilme, author of 'The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformation' argues that Trump’s tariffs masked a wealth shift from the poor to the rich, harming ordinary Amer...
www.transformingsociety.co.uk
June 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
𝗢𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗿𝘆: 𝗨𝗦 🆚 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮
@ssregilme.bsky.social (@leidenhumanities.bsky.social) examines how the trade war between the US and China is both used as a political tool, and reinforces inequality - in this Transforming Society blog @brisunipress.bsky.social 👇
@geopolitieknu.bsky.social
@ssregilme.bsky.social (@leidenhumanities.bsky.social) examines how the trade war between the US and China is both used as a political tool, and reinforces inequality - in this Transforming Society blog @brisunipress.bsky.social 👇
@geopolitieknu.bsky.social
The book is now available for pre-order through Manchester University Press and has its dedicated webpage: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183194/.
#China #UnitedStates #ForeignAid @manchesterup.bsky.social
#China #UnitedStates #ForeignAid @manchesterup.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The book is now available for pre-order through Manchester University Press and has its dedicated webpage: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183194/.
#China #UnitedStates #ForeignAid @manchesterup.bsky.social
#China #UnitedStates #ForeignAid @manchesterup.bsky.social
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FINALLY! The dysfunctional far-right government Schoof has effectively fallen, after Wilders pulled his party from the coalition.
Importantly, this happens as his PVV is in a (free) fall and centrist parties PvdA/GL-CDA-D66 are polling at 40% together. But is VVD still liberal democratic party?
Importantly, this happens as his PVV is in a (free) fall and centrist parties PvdA/GL-CDA-D66 are polling at 40% together. But is VVD still liberal democratic party?
Geert Wilders trekt PVV terug uit het kabinet-Schoof
Kabinetscrisis: Geert Wilders trekt de PVV terug uit het kabinet-Schoof. In dit liveblog volgt NRC de laatste ontwikkelingen.
www.nrc.nl
June 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
FINALLY! The dysfunctional far-right government Schoof has effectively fallen, after Wilders pulled his party from the coalition.
Importantly, this happens as his PVV is in a (free) fall and centrist parties PvdA/GL-CDA-D66 are polling at 40% together. But is VVD still liberal democratic party?
Importantly, this happens as his PVV is in a (free) fall and centrist parties PvdA/GL-CDA-D66 are polling at 40% together. But is VVD still liberal democratic party?
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@ssregilme.bsky.social argues that #Trump’s #Tariffs mask a wealth shift from the poor to the rich, harming ordinary Americans while weakening the economy and global alliances: buff.ly/cST8TYj
Oligarchic rivalry: US–China tariffs and the global politics of inequality - Transforming Society
Salvador Santino Regilme, author of 'The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformation' argues that Trump’s tariffs masked a wealth shift from the poor to the rich, harming ordinary…
www.transformingsociety.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
@ssregilme.bsky.social argues that #Trump’s #Tariffs mask a wealth shift from the poor to the rich, harming ordinary Americans while weakening the economy and global alliances: buff.ly/cST8TYj
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This is phenomenal.
Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.
It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.
It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
May 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This is phenomenal.
Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.
It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.
It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
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ICYMI: The first issue of Global Black Thought, a new journal from the African American Intellectual History Society and Penn Press, is now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806
May 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICYMI: The first issue of Global Black Thought, a new journal from the African American Intellectual History Society and Penn Press, is now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806
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The liberal insistence that Trump et al are just “stupid” and not deliberate in their choice of words and policies is absolutely infuriating. If they’re just “stupid” and you can’t beat them, then what are you? They’re intentional. They’re brutal. They’re organized. And they’re genuinely dangerous.
May 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The liberal insistence that Trump et al are just “stupid” and not deliberate in their choice of words and policies is absolutely infuriating. If they’re just “stupid” and you can’t beat them, then what are you? They’re intentional. They’re brutal. They’re organized. And they’re genuinely dangerous.
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It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan
Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s return
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this."
Interview ⤵️
Interview ⤵️
Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'
The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.
www.rollingstone.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this."
Interview ⤵️
Interview ⤵️
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Some of Asia’s richest families are cutting exposure to US assets, saying Trump’s tariffs have made the world’s largest economy much less predictable.
Asia’s Super-Rich Rapidly Scale Back US Exposure on Trade War
Some of Asia’s richest families are cutting exposure to US assets, saying President Donald Trump’s tariffs have made the world’s largest economy much less predictable.
bloom.bg
May 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Some of Asia’s richest families are cutting exposure to US assets, saying Trump’s tariffs have made the world’s largest economy much less predictable.
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Journalist and Nobel laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social says the United States has a lot to learn from the Philippines' experience with authoritarian rule.
April 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Journalist and Nobel laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social says the United States has a lot to learn from the Philippines' experience with authoritarian rule.
"people are willing to engage with and learn policy-relevant facts both for and against their initial attitudes; and that this increased factual knowledge shifts individuals towards more moderate policy attitudes"
Factual knowledge can reduce attitude polarization - Nature Communications
Prominent theories suggest people use political facts to bolster their political attitudes, yet previous work relies on observational data. Here, the authors present experimental evidence that learnin...
www.nature.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"people are willing to engage with and learn policy-relevant facts both for and against their initial attitudes; and that this increased factual knowledge shifts individuals towards more moderate policy attitudes"
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As Trump Attacks CBS, Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press
As Trump Attacks CBS, Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press
As the Trump administration goes after universities, law firms and more, some argue that the free press will eventually become a target. Trump’s attacks on the press have already begun, with the president...
www.democracynow.org
April 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
As Trump Attacks CBS, Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press
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Just a reminder that the white nationalist Great Replacement Theory that's being pushed by Trump, Musk and their toadies has been responsible for multiple mass shootings in the last decade.
This is the threat to Americans' safety, not innocent immigrants who've committed no crimes here.
This is the threat to Americans' safety, not innocent immigrants who've committed no crimes here.
“Indeed, Patrick believed he was acting in the direction of the president at the time, seeing it as his duty to stop the invasion because that’s what he believed the president was telling him.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/21/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/21/t...
Prosecutor cites anti-immigrant rhetoric as El Paso shooter is sentenced to 23 life terms
”This community will always remember those whose lives you stole … Their light will never fade,” the judge told the shackled shooter. “While you, your name and your hate, will be forgotten.”
www.texastribune.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Just a reminder that the white nationalist Great Replacement Theory that's being pushed by Trump, Musk and their toadies has been responsible for multiple mass shootings in the last decade.
This is the threat to Americans' safety, not innocent immigrants who've committed no crimes here.
This is the threat to Americans' safety, not innocent immigrants who've committed no crimes here.
My article now available in @nature.com:"If nations are willing to set benchmarks for gross domestic product for military spending, they should do the same for education, science and health. Universities are not luxuries; they are crucial democratic infrastructures..." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The global assault on universities is an attack on democracy
Letter to the Editor
www.nature.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
My article now available in @nature.com:"If nations are willing to set benchmarks for gross domestic product for military spending, they should do the same for education, science and health. Universities are not luxuries; they are crucial democratic infrastructures..." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Pope Francis brought a limited but desperately needed progressive spirit to the Catholic Church. Under his successor, that spirit is likely to wither.
After Pope Francis, a Catholic Move Rightward Seems Likely
Pope Francis brought a limited but desperately needed progressive spirit to the Catholic Church. Under his successor, that spirit is likely to wither.
jacobin.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Pope Francis brought a limited but desperately needed progressive spirit to the Catholic Church. Under his successor, that spirit is likely to wither.
"As the first Asian leader to be arrested and detained in The Hague, Duterte is also the first to face trial specifically for state-initiated mass violence in the name of narcotics control. Yet, Duterte is not an outlier in waging an expansive state-led war on drugs"
The Philippines confronts Duterte’s authoritarian legacy at The Hague
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s reckoning at The Hague tests the limits of impunity and the resilience of Philippine democracy.
eastasiaforum.org
April 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
"As the first Asian leader to be arrested and detained in The Hague, Duterte is also the first to face trial specifically for state-initiated mass violence in the name of narcotics control. Yet, Duterte is not an outlier in waging an expansive state-led war on drugs"