5 THE POST-WAR DECLINE OF THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CONFERENCE 475More specifically, Torres Bodet suggested that the conference should
consider its relations with the International Political Science Association
(IPSA), a creature of UNESCO which was soon to be formally inau-
gurated. Torres Bodet stated in relation to the prospective relationship
between the ISC and IPSA the following: ‘International relations are
only a small part of the field covered by...[IPSA]...but your studies per-
haps require greater familiarity with aspects of contemporary problems
not strictly political (economic, financial and legal). I therefore feel that a
rational demarcation of your respective spheres of interest would, if you
so desire, give you ample opportunity of collaborating in your particular
field with...[IPSA]’.^161
Seemingly feeling the ISC’s existence might be under threat as a result
of the formation of IPSA and in order to make clear ‘from the outset’
the differences between the ISC’s and IPSA’s ‘respective interests in
social science,’ the conference passed a resolution in which it sought to
define its particular aims and approach. The resolution affirmed that del-
egates desired that the ISC ‘retain its...status’ as an international associa-
tion ‘qualified to represent institutions concerned with scientific research
and teaching in the field of international relations’; to this end the res-
olution welcomed the accord reached on June 9, 1949, that ensured
the renewal of the ISC’s relations with UNESCO. While the resolution
stated that the conference was desirous of entering into relations with
any scientific international organisation whose work touched on the field
of international relations, it also ‘affirmed that international relations
represent a specific branch of research and education.’^162
The planned meeting on the University Teaching of International
Relations was in the end held between the March 16 and 20, 1950,
at St. Catherine’s, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park. It was to
be the last general assembly held under the auspices of the ISC. A few
of the issues raised within the framework of the meeting by Manning,
its general rapporteur, help explain why this was the case. In a report
(^161) Ibid., 94.
(^162) International Social Science Bulletin, nos. 3–4 (1949), 94.