The ISA’s Contribution to Global Democratic Governance
Looking backward, we acknowledge that both sociology and its international association, the ISA, have made impressive advances; looking forward, we realize that there is much more to do to make them truly global. The promotion of international sociology was one of the ISA’s key goals from the start. ISA presidents have contributed in different ways to sociology’s internationalization. During my term as president in 1998-2002, for example, we...