This article examines how the European Union projects regulatory authority through discourse on maritime labor governance. Focusing on official EU documents concerning the European Maritime Safety Agency’s audits of the Philippines, the study analyzes how compliance, partnership, and quality assurance are discursively constructed to sustain the EU’s global influence. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, it identifies three dominant themes: technical governance, partnership and capacity building, and conditional recognition. These discourses reflect the broader dynamics of the Brussels Effect, in which regulatory norms are externalized through persuasion and dependency. By situating EU discourse within the context of Philippine seafarer education and labor export, the paper shows how language functions as a mechanism of governance, translating regulatory standards into global hierarchies of authority and compliance.

This proposal investigates the crisis of legitimacy of the United Nations decolonization regime in light of decolonial theories and the global reparations movement. Starting from a critical analysis of Article 73 of the UN Charter, the study examines how the absence of objective criteria for defining "self-government" has allowed administering states—with particular emphasis on the paradigmatic case of France and its territories in Martinique and New Caledonia—to use constitutional integration as a strategy for maintaining coloniality. It is argued that this "integration" often masks a persistent administrative and economic dependence fueled by the persistence of colonial hierarchies organized since the ideology of European whiteness. In this context, the work proposes a conceptual shift: the reconfiguration of self-determination beyond a formal principle of International Law, understanding it as an inalienable dimension of reparative justice. By connecting the genealogy of global anti-slavery and anti-colonial movements with contemporary times, this work seeks to demonstrate that the struggle for territorial self-determination is not an isolated event, but a continuous chapter in the radical Black tradition of global resistance. Guided by studies on Black internationalism and under the concept of "Becoming Black in the world" (Mbembe, 2018), the theoretical proposition of a Black Global Governance emerges, a concept that is not limited to demographic representation, but refers to an epistemology of power that centralizes the experiences, pains, and, fundamentally, the survival technologies of Black and Indigenous populations.

The central focus of this work is on understanding the political agency of global movements for reparations for slavery and colonialism and how these reorganize traditional elements of international law such as self-determination aligned with a political ethic of reparation. In these territories, resistance against the high cost of living and monopolistic market structures is not merely an economic demand, but an affirmation of sovereignty over the very processes of struggle. By rejecting external tutelage and narratives of cooperation that reproduce colonial hierarchies, these movements operate a refounding (remaking) of the global architecture, articulating new conceptions of sovereignty and self-determination. It is concluded that the true process of decolonization requires the international system to recognize these liberation practices as legitimate forms of governance, capable of challenging the capitalist-patriarchal logic and refounding the bases of global coexistence based on the ethics of Good Living and historical reparation.