Workshop Grant Guidelines provide application details, as outlined by the Workshop Grants Committee. Archives of previous workshops can be found at Workshop Grant Archives.

Workshop grants aim to bring together small groups of participants focusing on a significant research problem that stimulates cross-national examination or perspectives and engages the interests of several disciplines. Topics should be sufficiently well focused to allow in-depth exploration during the time proposed for the workshop. All participants are expected to present a fully-developed scholarly paper on a relevant topic in order to attend the workshop. The workshop, itself, is expected to result in significant scholarly outputs, such as a book-length manuscript and scholarly articles. Participation in workshops is by invitation only.

2012 Catalytic Workshops

Catalytic Research Workshop Grants target projects that aim to apply new expertise or new approaches to established research topics and are likely to catalyze rapid and innovative advances. Funds may be used to support several types of workshops: to bring together authors for an edited volume; to plan for a collaborative research project; or to stimulate new approaches to the substance and analysis of a topic. The list of workshop participants, meeting times, and locations are available in the Full Program area of MyISA (search for events). We are offering the following Catalytic Research Workshops at the 2012 Annual Convention:

• The Changing Character of War, the State and the Utility of Force in the 21st Century
• People's Power and the Globalisation of Democracy
• Think Globally, Teach Locally?
• Institutions for Sustainable Peace
• Transnational Actors and Conflict Outcomes
• Doing Critical Methods in International Political Economy
• International Relations in the Information Age
• Counting what counts and telling telling stories

2012 Venture Workshops

Venture Research Workshop Grants are targeted for projects that venture into emerging and potentially transformative research areas or preliminary work on untested and novel and path-breaking ideas. The goal is to support truly innovative research that has the potential to make a significant leap or paradigm shift and move the frontiers of knowledge forward. The list of workshop participants, meeting times, and locations are available in the Full Program area of MyISA (search for events). We are offering the following Venture Research Workshops at the 2012 Annual Convention:

• The New Power Politics
• The Repertoire of Tactics In Conflict
• Legacies of Empire
• Capitalism and Climate Change
• NGOs by the Numbers