Mercedes Masters is an MA International Relations graduate from Leiden University in the Netherlands, and a researcher for a London-based specialist consultancy group. Her research interests lie in postcolonial relations between Europe and the Global South, focusing on colonial remnants (religious, racial and gendered) in contemporary European policy and diplomacy, aiming to decolonise future diplomatic discourses, attitudes and relationships.

Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. is tenured University Lecturer in International Relations and Human Rights at the Institute for History, Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia (University of Michigan Press), co-editor of the forthcoming volume Human Rights at Risk: International Institutions, American Power, and the Future of Dignity (Rutgers University Press), and co-editor of American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers (Routledge, 2018). He holds a joint PhD in Political Science and North American Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin, and he previously studied at Yale, Osnabrück, and Göttingen. He is the 2019 Inaugural Winner of the International Studies Association’s Asia-Pacific Best Conference Paper Award. Follow him at Twitter: @santinoregilme.