Oscilimet e identitetit shqiptar në objektivin e albanologjisë dhe të diplomacisë austro-hungareze
Oscillations of the Albanian Identity in the Objective of Albanology and Austro-Hungarian Diplomacy

Summary/Abstract: Austro-Hungarian politics towards Albanians as well as Albania can be traced by two parallels: based on Albanologic research sponsored by it and based on the documents of the Danubian Monarchy’s institutions. Although Albanologic studies and state diplomacy and politics have progressed at a different speed, the direction of their movement has been the same, a better inquiry into language, history, culture and Albanian tradition, the religious separations prioritizing Catholics, their transformation into a modeled nation for Austrian interests in facing PanSlavism, and a long-term geopolitical, religious and political influence on the constructed Albanian nation. Although their purposes were similar, Albanologic studies have moved at a slower pace if compared to politics and diplomacy. They have even stagnated, thus remaining merely Albanologic knowledge solidified at its pioneering phase. In its stagnated contents can been noticed not only the programmatic and theoretic limitations of those Albanologic studies, but also the initials motives of Austro-Hungarian politics and diplomacy, which formed the background of these studies and which contained expectations of additional aid in the fulfillment of the Austrian megaproject for Albania and Albanians, the heart of which was the Cultus Protectorate. In other words, a part of Albanologic studies of the Austro-Hungarian province were not successful in moving beyond the frame of the Cultus Protectorate, whereas Austro-Hungarian diplomacy and politics managed to break free of this framework and were remodeled based on the changes imposed on them by the unexpected developments amidst Albanians in the years 1910-1912 as well as the entire Balkans due to the Balkan wars.

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