Students and Educators

Recipients around the globe

NSEP supports students who are eager to study in and about areas of the world critical to U.S. national security and outside Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Destinations for NSEP award recipients include Egypt, Israel, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, etc. NSEP's focus on these critical and understudied world regions remains indispensable to the future American capacity to address major national security needs.

NSEP preferred countries

The following list represents regions and countries of interest to NSEP that are critical to U.S. national security.

Africa
Angola	Congo, Democratic Republic	Congo, Republic of the	Cote d'Ivoire
Eritrea	Ethiopia	Kenya	Liberia
Nigeria	Rwanda	Sierra Leone	South Africa
Sudan	Tanzania	Uganda	Zimbabwe

East Asia and Pacific
Burma	Cambodia	China	Indonesia
Japan	Korea, North	Korea, South	Malaysia
Philippines	Taiwan	Thailand	Vietnam

East Europe and Eurasia
Albania	Armenia	Azerbaijan	Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bulgaria	Croatia	Czech Republic
Georgia	Hungary	Kazakhstan	Kyrgyzstan
Macedonia	Moldova	Poland	Romania
Russia	Serbia and Montenegro	Slovakia	Slovenia
Tajikistan	Turkey	Ukraine	Uzbekistan

Latin America and Caribbean
Argentina	Brazil	Chile	Colombia
Cuba	El Salvador	Guatemala	Haiti
Honduras	Mexico	Nicaragua	Panama
Peru	Venezuela

Near East
Algeria	Bahrain	Egypt	Iran
Iraq	Israel	Jordan	Kuwait
Lebanon	Libya	Morocco	Oman
Qatar	Saudi Arabia	Syria	Tunisia
United Arab Emirates	Yemen

South Asia
Afghanistan	India	Pakistan