The International Studies Association (ISA) is a US-based professional association for scholars and practitioners in the field of international studies. It publishes several journals, including Global Studies Quarterly.
The International Studies Association (ISA) was founded in 1959. It has been headquartered at the University of Connecticut in Storrs since 2015.
The ISA is a professional association for scholars and practitioners in the field of international studies.
the ISA's executive director is M. J. Bosia. It has been a member of the International Science Council since 1984.
In 2020 ISA had more than 7,000 members in over 100 countries. It describes itself as "one of the oldest interdisciplinary associations dedicated to understanding international, transnational and global affairs." ISA encompasses six geographic subdivisions (regions), 29 thematic groups (sections), and four caucuses, providing opportunities to exchange ideas and research with local colleagues and within specific subject areas.
ISA's annual convention routinely draws over 6,000 attendees.
The ISA awards a large number of prizes, including the Alexander George Award (since 1990), the Carl Beck Award (since 1980), the Quincy Writer Award, the J. Ann Tickner Award, and many others.
Since 1981, the ISA has awarded the Karl Deutsch Award to scholars under age 40 or within ten years of defending their doctoral dissertation.
ISA publishes seven academic journals (International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, International Studies Perspectives, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Political Sociology, Journal of Global Security Studies, and Global Studies Quarterly), all currently published by Oxford University Press, and co-sponsors an eighth (International Interactions). ISA also publishes the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies in conjunction with Oxford University Press and maintains other online resources.
In 2014, ISA came under criticism for a proposed ban on blogging by its journals' editors.
Global Studies Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed open-access academic journal covering research across the broad field of international studies, including global politics, economics, society, and culture. It was established in 2021 is and is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association. The editors-in-chief are Brent J. Steele (University of Utah) and Jelena SubotiÃÂ (Georgia State University).
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, EBSCO databases, ProQuest databases, and Scopus.