How Great Powers Engineered Albania

Описание: How Great Powers Engineered Albania

In this episode of The Sovereign Thinker, we uncover how Albania was not the product of organic nationhood, but the calculated creation of the Great Powers; Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Britain.

From Austro-Hungarian cultural engineering and the spread of the Illyrian descent myth, to the geopolitical chess game over the Otranto Strait, this is the untold story of how empires forged a nation for their own strategic ends.

We’ll explore:

Why Albania had no shared national identity before the late 19th century.

How Vienna, Rome, and London financed schools, publications, and propaganda to unite Albanians.

The political purpose behind the Illyrian descent theory.

How Great Power rivalry with Serbia shaped Albania’s destiny.

The lasting consequences for Balkan politics today.

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00:00 Albania Built, Not Born
01:00 No Shared Nationhood
02:06 The Rilindja Kombëtare
02:52 Austria-Hungary’s Cultural Engineering
04:12 The Illyrian Descent Theory
06:17 Italy and Britain’s Geopolitical Calculations
07:39 The Otranto Strait
11:19 Creating Artificial Hate
13:54 Where Do We Go From Here?