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International Affairs (journal)
International Affairs is a peer-reviewed international relations journal founded in 1922 by Chatham House, published six times yearly by Oxford University Press, with a 2025 impact factor of 5.0 and rank 3/173.
International Affiliation of Writers Guilds
The International Affiliation of Writers Guilds is an international organization of professional screenwriters' guilds. It represents approximately 65,000 writers across 15 member guilds in 13 countries.
International Age Rating Coalition
The International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) is an organization of game and app rating authorities that assigns age ratings to digital games and apps through one questionnaire.
International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos
International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos: the 1962 Geneva Declaration and Protocol signed July 23, 1962 by 13 powers plus Laos, guaranteeing a neutral Laos under Canadian-Indian-Polish supervision; it collapsed by 1963.
International AI Safety Report
The International AI Safety Report is an annual scientific assessment of general-purpose AI capabilities and risks, chaired by Yoshua Bengio and backed by over 30 countries.
International Air & Space Hall of Fame
The International Air & Space Hall of Fame honors aviation and space pioneers, and is administered by the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park.
International Air Transport Association
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is a non-profit association of airlines, founded in 1945 and headquartered in Montreal, that sets operational and financial standards for its members.
International Airlines Group
International Airlines Group (IAG), formally International Consolidated Airlines Group, is a European airline holding company created in 2011 through the merger of British Airways and Iberia.
International airport
An international airport is an airport designated by its state as an entry and departure point for international commercial air traffic, where customs, immigration, health, and quarantine formalities are performed.
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) is a labor union representing more than 168,000 stagehands, technicians, and craftspeople in the United States and Canada, founded in 1893.
International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration
IAST, the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, is a lossless diacritic-based scheme for romanizing Sanskrit and Indic scripts, established at the 1894 Geneva Congress of Orientalists and contrasted with ISO 15919, ITRANS, and Harvard-Kyoto.
International Amphitheatre
International Amphitheatre: Chicago indoor arena at 42nd and Halsted beside the Union Stock Yards, built 1934 for $1.5 million for the International Live Stock Exposition; hosted six national political conventions and was demolished in 1999.
International animal welfare law
International animal welfare law is the body of rules governing animal treatment across borders; it has no binding global treaty, relying instead on WOAH standards and European conventions.
International Appalachian Trail
International Appalachian Trail (Sentier International des Appalaches), IAT/SIA: long-distance hiking trail network extending the Appalachian Trail from Maine's Katahdin through Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, and Morocco, following the ancient Appalachian-Caledonian mountains of Pangea.
International Arctic Buoy Programme
The International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) is an international cooperative program maintaining drifting buoys across the Arctic Ocean, providing meteorological and oceanographic data continuously since 1979.
International Article Number
International Article Number, originally European Article Numbering and known as EAN-13, is the 13-digit number in the GS1 system printed as a retail barcode on products worldwide.
International Assassin
International Assassin is best known as the title of the eighth episode of the second season of the HBO drama The Leftovers, first aired in 2015.
International Association for Dental Research
International Association for Dental Research (IADR), also International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research: nonprofit scientific society founded by William Gies in 1920, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with over 10,000 members in 80+ countries and owner of the Journal of Dental Research.
International Association for Lichenology
The International Association for Lichenology (IAL), inaugurated in 1967, promotes research, education, and contact among lichenologists worldwide, publishing the International Lichenological Newsletter and awarding the Acharius Medal.
International Association for Mathematical Geosciences
The International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) is a non-profit scientific association, founded in Prague in 1968, that promotes mathematics, statistics, and informatics in the geosciences and publishes four journals.
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) is an independent cooperative of national research institutions that runs large-scale comparative studies of educational achievement, including TIMSS and PIRLS.
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
The International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) is a politically neutral, non-profit association based in Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 1897, with over 8,000 members in more than 110 countries.
International Association of Classification Societies
The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS), founded in 1968, is a not-for-profit association of twelve classification societies whose rules cover over 90% of world cargo tonnage.
International Association of Hydrogeologists
The International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) is a UK-based charitable organization of groundwater professionals, founded in 1956, with over 5,000 members in more than 130 countries.
International Association of Hydrological Sciences
The International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) is a UK-registered non-profit organization promoting hydrology worldwide, founded in 1922, with more than 13,000 members in over 170 countries.
International Association of Insurance Supervisors
The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) is a non-profit association of insurance supervisors domiciled in Basel, Switzerland, which sets global insurance standards, including the Insurance Core Principles and the Insurance Capital Standard adopted in 2024.
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, or IAM, is a North American labor union founded in 1888 that represents several hundred thousand aerospace, airline, and railroad workers.
International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers
IANTD (International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers), founded 1985 as IAND by Dick Rutkowski, is a technical diving certification agency offering nitrox, trimix, cave, and rebreather training in over 60 countries; first nitrox certification, 1985.
International Association of Physics Students
The International Association of Physics Students (IAPS) is a student-run nonprofit organization of physics students worldwide, founded in Debrecen, Hungary, in 1987 and known for its annual ICPS conference and PLANCKS competition.
International Association of Privacy Professionals
The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), founded in 2000 and headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is the world's largest not-for-profit association for privacy and AI governance professionals.