Issue 18, Academicus Journal, now published

Dear readers, authors, researchers, members of Academicus ISJ’ network,

I’m glad to introduce you the last issue published of Academicus ISJ, Issue 18, June 2018, http://www.academicus.edu.al/?subpage=volumes&nr=18 a very diversified bouquet of topics, insides, geographies, which testify once more for the continuous rising of the quality of our content, impact, as well as for the enlargement of our publishing standards.

The issue starts with a contribution by Raphael Cohen Almagor, entitled "Between Individual Rights and Group Rights". The politicization of ethnocultural diversity and the demands for greater public recognition by minority cultures and their identities, become issue of dispute and reflection, particularly when the minority seeking accommodation is illiberal. Such dilemmas and solutions are in the center of this highly sensitive and deeply involving work.

"Post-Empiricism and Philosophy of Science" is the article introduced by Michele Marsonet. It comes as an intent to provide some sketchy remarks on the post-empiricist phenomenon in philosophy of science, dealing with language and reality. Moving from Popper to the American pragmatists, by highlighting the creative character that scientific theories have, the author tries to explain explain the “jumps” that often take place in the history of science.

Joseph Garske brings to Academicus' readers a very interesting work dealing with "Anglophone and Civilian Legal Cultures: Two understandings of human trust for the global age".The principle of human trust which commons  both the Anglophone and Civilian legal cultures, even if in two opposite ways,  is of central importance in both. From the medieval period to the modern times, passing through opposing concepts of human nature, these two traditions are facing once again each other in the project to construct a global law, by forcing the determination of the meaning and importance of human trust in the global age.

"Interpreting Global Land and Water Grabbing through Two Rival Economic Paradigms" is the work introduced by Guglielmo Chiodi.The recent phenomenon of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) made by foreign investors in low-income agriculture-based countries is in the focus of this article by aiming to examine, from the economic theory historic-analytical perspective, some aspects of contemporary LSLAs, global land and water grabbing in particular. The neoclassical vision of most of the subjects and of the policy makers and institutions involved is challenged by an alternative ‘vision’– the contemporary classical economic theory rivaled by Sraffa in the 1960s.

"Western Balkans, Albania and the Diatribe between Development and Change" is a very interesting work introduced by Ilda Jeha and Ylli Cabiri.The eternal dilemma, which in many cases, in front of dramatic social and economic events of interested countries comes as a dispute, that of "change for the seek of change or change for development", is the core element of this article, tailored by an attentive historical, social and economic analysis of this phenomena in a region such as the Western Balkans', dealing with the past, presence and future of a country such as Albania.

Marţian Iovan introduces in this issue his work entitled "The Principles of the Equity and the Rightful Person’s Personality in the Democratic Context"The article, by analyzing and comparing various meanings of the concept of equity, dealing with ethical and juridical connotations, introduces the concept of the rightful person’s personality in the contemporary democratic societies, practically an ideal prototype, to be found the effective functioning of the institutions under the rule of law, at the level of human resources, where the intent becomes finding as much as possible compliance with this prototype.

"Scientific Ethics in Teaching of Social Sciences in Iran" is a contribution of  Masoumeh Qarakhani, Seyyed Ayatollah Mirzaie, dealing with a highly debated topic, that of the ethic of education, a distinctive value of the scientific community that obliges actors to comply with codes of conduct in the science education process. Focusing in the levels and types of academic dishonesty and recognizing factors affecting it in Iran’s social sciences education, the research show two levels of academic dishonesty, micro and macro referring  to the individual characteristics and personality traits of students and professors and the occurrence of academic dishonesty as well as the structural level, affected by the distribution of resources and rules in education concluding that the phenomena in Iran can be better can be explained in the light of a structural approach.

Enkeleida Shyle Petanaj brings in the attention of our readers the issue of "The Registration of the Ownership of the Illegal Objects in Albania".The right of ownership, even if  is sanctioned on the Constitution of Albania, changes with the changes of economic social relations such as the obtainment illegally of the state property and private property. The occupation of the land and massive population movement onto these lands after the 90's in Albania called for legalization, aiming to give ownership of state and private land to people who had illegally constructed buildings and to make them part of the process of urbanization. The article aims to introduce and discuss upon the legal steps of obtaining the title of ownership of the illegal objects, by indicating and analyzing a series of legal and judicial norms as an attempt to harmonize it by guaranteeing of the property right to the legitimate owners.

"BREXIT: New challenges for the World Trade" comes as a contribution of Olga Elena Ramírez Poggi, Roberto Veraldi, María Belén Medicina Leuzzi, Mayra Alejandra Delgado Mondragón, by dealing with a very up to date argument, highly sensitive and of a wide range of impact for the EU and the Global trade on a expanded view. Even if by not joining the Euro, Great Britain with its decission to exit from EU, causes political, social and economic turnmoil, and the article aims to to analyse the socio-economic and political implications of this Exit to the Euro zone itself.

"The Growing Problem of Obesity in the UAE" is the article introduced by Panthayil Babu Rajan, dealing with a social problem with devastating consequences in certain age and social groups in UAE, that of obesity.The topic has been introduced as set of choices induced in many cases by social, cultural and economic factors, by stressing upon certain life styles and cultures with negative impacts on health and wellbeing of people. The coordinated intervention strategies of bodies and social formations such as governmental organizations, voluntary organizations, service agencies, media and educational institutions in dealing with this phenomena are introduced as incisive in constructing "wellbeing" as a social denominator under the frame of a dominant culture.

Hanna Fedosieieva introduces in this issue an elaborated research entitled "Active position of the country in the world market of agrarian products as an indicator of the underdevelopment level of its economy".By examining the role of countries in the development of the world market of agrarian products, also in terms of the most consumed species, the article describes the main tendencies of international trade of agrarian products. This analysis has been developed also those agrarian products which are raw materials or have undergone the primary processing, by trying to guess upon the hypothesis that the active position of the country in the world agrarian market is a kind of evidence of the underdevelopment level of its economy.

"Asian-style export-led growth and the role of law" is the article that closes this issue, authored by the young researcher Renis Zaganjori.The growth of Asian economies through its export-led industrialisation policies is the focus of this paper. The limited reliance to law which signed such, considered integral to development by the neoliberal approach, relies on private laws for the protection of property and contractual rights for the efficient and smooth functioning of the market where the state has little or no intervention. By discussing the role of law in development and economic growth, the instrumental use of law and active state intervention in the Asian examples referred in the article, rise the dilemma if law is necessary or not when it comes to economic growth.

Prof. Dr. Arta Musaraj Editor in Chief of Academicus ISJ www.academicus.edu.al