In July 1973, at the age of 78, Max Horkheimer passed away In the Swiss town of Montagnola. If not the founder, he has at least the most important director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Frankfurt, from which the famous name “Frankfurt School” is derived. Actually, if we ca…

It is important to note that at the end of the election process there is a question laying before to all stakeholders: Did these elections meet the international standards of electoral integrity? Countries around the world have a challenge in common. They are challenged to meet international standar…

In this article, the author analyzes eco-education from a transdisciplinary perspective, as part of the “new education”, referring to its current dimensions, its goals and its utility in shaping the attitudes and behaviors of contemporary humans towards their environment and towards sustainable livi…

Nicholas Rescher writes that “objectivity is not something we infer from the data; it is something we must presuppose. It is something that we postulate or presume from the very outset of our dealings with people’s claims about the world’s facts”. Such definition is just the opposite of objectivity …

The complicated, troubled and tragic events of a wealthy family from Vlorë, Albania, which a century ago expanded its business to Italy, in Brindisi and Trieste, and whose grand land tenures and financial properties in Albania were nationalized by Communism after the Second World War. Hence the life…

Në vijim të traditës së përvitshme në Prishtinë, nga data 19-30.08.2013 u zhvilluan punimet e Seminarit XXXII ndërkombëtar për gjuhën, letërsinë dhe kulturën shqiptare, i organizuar nga Universiteti i Prishtinës, Fakulteti i Filologjisë në bashkëpunim me Universitetin e Tiranës, Fakulteti i Historis…

Në datat 23-24 nëndor 2013 në qytetin Detroit të Shteteve të Bashkuara të Amerikës u zhvillua simpoziumi “Hoti ndër rrjedhat e shekujve”, organizuar nga komuniteti shqiptaro-amerikan, në bashkëpunim me Qendrën Shpirtërore e kulturore shqiptare “Shën Pali” në Michigan, si edhe me institucionet shkenc…

Më dt. 20 dhjetor 2013, në Bibliotekën Kombëtare u zhvillua Konferenca Shkencore: “Petro Marko - shkrimtari në tri kohë” kushtuar jetës dhe veprës letrare të njërit ndër shkrimtarët e shquar të letërsisë sonë, organizuar nga Qendra e Studimeve Albanologjike dhe Instituti i Gjuhësisë dhe i Letërsisë …

Gjuha shqipe po përballet sot në shkallë të gjerë me gjuhët e vendeve të zhvilluara me të cilat ka kontakte kulturore e njerëzore, duke u vënë nën trysninë e fortë të këtyre gjuhëve. Kjo trysni është shumë e dukshme në fushën e leksikut, por ajo nuk mungon edhe në rrafshet e tjera: në fonetikë, në s…

Electoral behavior is a new element in the political analysis of democracy in Albania. Distinctive features of the Albanian transition distinguish other models of the former communist countries, as well as significantly differ with Western models and electoral behavior analysis of the relations betw…

Irregular immigration is a phenomenon with a substantial impact for the majority of the countries. The paper analyses whether there is an adequate human rights framework for protection of irregular immigrants or whether the irregular status exempts the migrants from the protection of international h…

Logical empiricism gave rise to a powerful paradigm and it took some decades to overthrow it, even though it should be judged respectfully since, after all, philosophy of science and logic as we know them stemmed from that ground. The basic assumptions on which the paradigm of the “received view” re…