ISA Compendium Project: An Update

The International Studies Compendium Project will be the most comprehensive reference work of its kind for the field of international studies. Peer reviewed essays of up to ten thousand words will focus on important topics and issues. Each essay will provide a comprehensive review of the development of the literature in a given area, as well as a focused discussion of current themes. Essays are designed to allow readers to be brought quickly up-to-date on the nature of questions asked, past attempts at formulating responses, and the current state of debates in a given issue area. These essays are designed for students, scholars or practitioners who want to understand the development of our thinking on international studies.

Every ISA Section, along with groups in political geography and IR theory, has created a list of topics to be included in the project.  These lists have now been reviewed and in some cases, revised and Section Editors have worked within each section to identify potential authors.  To date, we have authors committed to write on approximately 80% of the over 650 Compendium Project review essays. Both authors and reviewers rely on the Wiley-Blackwell author submission website for the formal peer-review process.  We aim to have all of the review essays into the copyediting stage by the end of March 2009.

To learn more about the review essay topics, visit the ISA website at:
http://www.isanet.org/compendium/

Further details on serving as a reviewer may be found here. The Wiley-Blackwell author submission website (for authors and reviewers) can be found here.

Robert Denemark, General Editor
Andrea K. Gerlak, Managing Editor