DPLST is a section of the International Studies Association dedicated to studies of diplomacy across both disciplinary and international boundaries.

ELIAS is a section that is an inclusive forum for ISA members of all sections interested in all matters of teaching, learning, and higher education, including but not limited to active learning; pedagogy; international education; the scholarship of teaching and learning; comparative education; higher education politics and policies; philosophies of education; learning theory; and departmental and programmatic curricular development, administration, assessment, and evaluation.

This subsection of the greater ISA Leadership focuses on the study of the connections between the English School and IR Theory.

We are scholars interested in a variety of issues related to Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration, and would like to develop better communications among people with similar interests.

A subsection of ISA Leadership that focuses on the study of global, regional and national environmental issues.

The FPA Section is devoted to facilitating research and teaching on foreign policy. The Foreign Policy Analysis Section of ISA seeks to foster the study of foreign policy making and foreign policy behavior.

A section of ISA that brings together scholars who apply feminist theory to International Relations or look at the field through a gender lens.

The Global Development Section draws together scholars broadly concerned with development and global justice working across a number of fields, for example, postcolonial studies, development studies, critical political economy, critical security studies, social and political theory, history, sociology, gender studies, and public policy.

The GHS section is dedicated to the study of public health in international affairs. The section also seeks to create an institutional home for scholars dedicated to health studies

The “Global IR” Section brings together IR scholars from different, often neglected parts of the world to transcend parochial “camps,” to provide a platform for the achievement of “Global IR,” towards one pluralist Global IR, accepting of difference, in brief, the “turn to global IR.”

The HIST section is dedicated to the study of history in international relations

The HR section encourages multidisciplinary scholarship and teaching in the area of human rights. This includes those in the disciplines of political science, law, history, philosophy, economics, sociology, anthropology, and other related fields.

The Intelligence Studies Section (ISS) is devoted to the advancement of research on all aspects of intelligence as it relates to international studies.

IDSS (formerly CISS) is a section of the International Studies Association dedicated to application of an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of international, transnational, and regional issues.

The ICOMM section is broadly interested in issues including (but not limited to), the impact of information technologies in world politics, the role of the media in foreign policy, cultural dimensions of international studies, the political economy of the communications industries, information in the global order.

IETHICS is a section of the International Studies Association dedicated to the study of ethics in international and global affairs.

ILAW is a section of the International Studies Association dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of international law.

IO is a section of the International Studies Association dedicated to the study of international institutions, integration processes and transnational interactions.

IPE is a section of the International Studies Association dedicated to studies of the relationship between economics and international studies.

IPS is a section of the International Studies Association focused on the social and cultural dimensions of international studies.

ISSS is a section of the International Studies Association dedicated to studies of security and conflict.

PEACE is a section of the International Studies Association that seeks to understand the causes of war and violence and of the conditions of peace.

PDG is a section of the International Studies Association dedicated to exploring interactions between populations, geography and politics.

POSTCOMM is a section of the International Studies Association dedicated to exploring relations with the former Soviet bloc states.

The REL section is dedicated to the study of the role of religion in international affairs.

The South Asia in World Politics Section (SAWP) creates a fertile dialogue between areas such as International relations theory, comparative regionalism, foreign policy analysis, and brings in the contextual knowledge of South Asia to ISA.

The STAIR section recognizes that science, technology, and art (in the form of creativity, the arts, architecture and design) are at the core of global politics.

SSIP is a section of the International Studies Association dedicated to the pursuit of international studies using formal or empirical methods/data.

THEORY is a section of the International Studies Association dedicated to debating and developing theory.