The Curious Case of Albanian Nationalism: the Crooked Line from a Scattered Array of Clans to a Nation-State
Journal: The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations
Year: 2013

Albanian nationalism has been largely studied by overlooking the state of art of theoretical discussions on nationalism, focusing merely on chronological narratives which after a point tend to replicate themselves. This paper embraces the modernist theories of nationalism in order to explain the emergence of Albanian nationalism and its consolidation during the post-independence period under the auspices of Albanian nation-state. Thus it rethinks many of the conceptual understandings which under