Volume 7 - Josha Journal

9. November 2020 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.6.719

External Actors and Democratization Process in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic: The Case of the United States of America

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Olayide Oladeji

Ekiti State University

This paper examines the role of external actors in the democratization process in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic with a focus on the United States of America. Democracy promotion abroad is a…

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News and Views

8. November 2020 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.6.720

Editorial Volume 7, Issue 5

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Stephan Seiler

IASHA / JOSHA Journal

Dear JOSHA readers, In this bi-monthly issue we will present you the 2020 Demetrios Award winners. Five prizes go to young researchers in the categories Bachelor, Master and PHD. In…

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News and Views

2. November 2020 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.5.718

A convocation speech of Dr. Joachim Frank (Columbia University), alumnus of the University of Freiburg, to the students of the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi on September 26,…

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Medicine

2. November 2020 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.5.717

Health Impact Fund

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Felicitas Holzer

Health Impact Fund

As currently designed, pharmaceutical markets have a fundamental flaw that mainly affects poor people: the development of new medicines is funded exclusively through markups protected by patents. This flaw causes…

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Charles Taylor: Una Aproximación a la Noción de Reconocimento e Identidad -Charles Taylor: An Approach to the Notion of Recognition and Identity

Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

26. October 2020 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.5.715

Charles Taylor: Una Aproximación a la Noción de Reconocimento e Identidad -Charles Taylor: An Approach to the Notion of Recognition and Identity

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Luis Enrique Silva Vieira

Pontificia Universidad Católica Santa Rosa UCSAR

The thought of identity and recognition occupies an increasingly important place in Charles Taylor`s thinking. It has even sparked the interest of thinkers like Michel Walzer and Jürgen Habermas to…

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Weltpolitikfähigkeit – The Ability of World Politics

Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

19. October 2020 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.5.714

Weltpolitikfähigkeit – The Ability of World Politics

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Helmut Haussmann

Universität Tübingen

This is a subjective lecture by a disenchanted European, a disappointed transatlantic - and, I am exaggerating slightly, an admirer of Chinese culture and its history. Globally seen; China has…

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Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

12. October 2020 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.5.713

The Tell Tale Heart

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Timoteo Marchini

El Gato y la Caja

During the first week of December 1952, a dense toxic fog settled over London, resulting in a total excess of 4,000 deaths compared to the previous week. The magnitude of…

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Medicine

5. October 2020 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.5.711

Music & Medicine

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Franziska Buttgereit

Theater Freiburg, Germany

The use of music in medicine has been attested both among indigenous people and in the ancient civilizations up to Greco-Roman antiquity. In the 18th century, the therapeutic effect of…

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News and Views

28. September 2020 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.5.712

black & white

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Britta Ullrich

Britta macht blau

In a perfect world people, regardless of their skin color, would live next to each other peacefully – in a country, in a city, in a neighborhood, on one street.…

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Life Sciences

21. September 2020 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.5.699

An open book

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Sebastián Vishnopolska

El Gato y La Caja Journal. Buenos Aires

In the 1990s, scientists started to discuss how to sequence the human genome, the complete list of genes encoded in human DNA. Two research groups, one directed by James Watson…

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