International Relations and Regional Cooperation

Abstract

Asia faces many non-traditional security challenges at the subnational level that are closely linked to domestic, economic, political, and social issues within different countries. These challenges have important ramifications beyond national borders: from environmental degradation, natural disasters, and trafficking-in-persons to maritime security, ethnic and religious conflict, and failed systems of governance. The Asia Foundation’s International Relations and Regional Cooperation Programs work to strengthen relations between the United States and Asia, and among Asian nations to foster peace, stability, and prosperity.