The Institute is an independent non-profit Bulgarian NGO, not linked to political parties, organisations or movements, as well as to religious or ideological denominations. Judicial person according to the Formal Register of Judicial Persons at Sofia City Court: Consignment 1496, Vol. 23, Ch.V, p. 121, based on Decision 1979 of Sofia City Court of 4 November 1994. ISIS stimulates, organizes and encourages research in the fields of theory and practice of international relations, foreign policy, international law and economics, security, defense, international negotiations and political studies, supports the formation of public awareness and differentiation of opinions in these areas as well as informing about them. The Institute is part of the network of the PfP Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes since 1998 and of the family of EU institutes for foreign policy, international relations and security studies, working in cooperation with the EU Institute for Securitty Studies since 1994.
