Welcome to the International Studies Association-West!

We welcome input as we develop our new webpage, and as we establish our conference's home in San Francisco. The 2007 ISA-West conference was an unprecendented success, as attendees listened to addresses by noted scholar Richard Falk and ISA President Jack Levy, participated in a number of professional development activities, attended a variety of stimulating panels and roundtables, and were a part of ISA-West's workshop, "New Problems, Old Solutions." ISA-West has affiliated with the International Ethics Section of the ISA, the Carnegie Endowment for International Ethics, and Women in International Security to bring an ethics-themed conference every year. Additionally, ISA-West has fostered a health research "section" led by Andrew Price-Smith, bringing together leading scholars of health and global politics. ISA-West also put together an edited volume, New Problems, Old Solutions: Rethinking 21st Century Security (London: Zed Books, forthcoming 2008).

ISA-West 2008 hopes to continue the growth of ISA-West. In order to facilitate that, ISA-West has a few rules concerning the application to and attendance of the conference. First, like last year, the ISA-West 2008 deadline for submission will be May 1, 2008. Second, new this year, you will hear about your acceptance by August 1 if not before. Attendees who drop in the month of September without emergencies will not be invited back to ISA-West 2009. This is for the good of all participants, who suffer when last-minute replacements or panel restructuring has to take place. Finally, all faculty who attend will be asked to serve as a chair or discussant of a panel. This is for two reasons: first, to ensure the quality of our chairs and discussants, and second, to further one of ISA-West's most important missions: mentoring.

Visit links to:

ISA-West 2008 Registration (You must register for the conference to be eligible to present)

and

ISA-West 2008 Travel and Lodging Information

When you apply to participate in ISA-West 2008, please include the following: name, contact address, email address, phone number, instittutional affiliation (if any, or independent scholar), title (ph.d. student, ph.d. candidate, associate professor, etc), the title of the paper (you'd be surprised that people omit that), an abstract, and general areas of interest for the purpose of being a chair or discussant. Further, if there is only one day that you can attend the conference, tell us in advance - we are more likely to be able to accomodate you then.

If you have any questions, feel free to send us an email at: isawest@gmail.com. For more details, see the ISA-West 2008 call for papers and conference/travel details.