Really nobody has any advice?
well I've got one other question. While reading "The Origins of the World War" by Sidney Bradshaw Fay, I read that several people close Franz Ferdinand believed that had he acended to the throne he would have substituted Trialism for the existing Dualism. Is there marit behind this claim? Would Triaism simply fracture the empire more or heal it?
http://www.amazon.com/Archduke-Sarajevo-Romance-Tragedy-Ferdinand/dp/0316109517
The nature of FF has also been confirmed in several scholarly journals such as the Austrian History Yearbook, whose article titles I can try to find for you if you'd like. He was an autocrat that wanted to concentrate power in his own hands, not reform the empire to all for democracy. He HATED democracy and the Hungarian nobility and all the plans he solicited to reform the empire had to do with his goal of concentrating power in his own hands and destroying Hungarian power. The mythical "United States of Austria" by Popovic was an idea he IMMEDIATELY rejected, because it would mean too much power delegated out of his hands. He settled on keeping the Dual Monarchy because he could reinstate just the Austrian Empire. Anything that created new parliaments he would have to deal with was not in FF's plans.
FF was in no way a reformer. He abandoned Trialism in 1907 when he realized it would make the system worse, not undermine the Hungarians. He was also intensely anti-war and wouldn't go to war with Serbia over the assassination, because is no way to prove that this one man was in any way linked to Serbia. IIRC
Bogdan Zerajic was a Bosnian, so all it would mean is a security crackdown. Russia would not back off if AH went to war with in this scenario, especially after the humiliation of the Bosnian Annexation Crisis, regardless of the death of FJ.
Also FF wanted to make his first act the dismissal of Tisza and the introduction of universal suffrage in Hungary, even if that meant a civil war. He planned to occupy Budapest through Plan U, which had been designed in 1905 after the Hungarians blocked some of FJ's plans. So what you'll end up seeing after the assassination of FJ is a massive crackdown in Bosnia, with hundreds jailed and tortured and all pro-Serbian/anti-Habsburg groups outlawed. The Bosnians would probably react as in OTL after FF assassination and riot against the local Serb population. But war is not in the cards. FF did not want war under any circumstance because he thought that even with Germany AH would lose. Instead he wanted to fix the internal issues by breaking the back of Hungarian opposition, which was the stranglehold the essentially feudal nobility of Hungary had in their parliament (only 5% of the country could vote, all hereditary nobles who were all Hungarian chauvanists). By allowing the Croats, Romanians, Slovaks, and 95% of Hungarians (poor farmers) to vote Hungary would stop opposing the build up of the army and would drop the opposition to the rule of the monarch.
FF was an absolutist and wanted to concentrate all power in his own hands. By 1912 the Reichsrat in Vienna for the Austrian half of the empire was already dismissed because it had become deadlocked, but the Hungarians still were able to check his power. Once Tisza and his clique of nobles were no longer in charge in Hungary, he could concentrate further power in his hands by playing divide and conquer in Hungary, as he could then play off the Slavs and Romanians against the Hungarians, who now would be represented by the poor farmers instead of the few rich land owners. It was actually an ingenious scheme that probably would have made AH much stronger in the short term, with uncertain prospects for the long.
For sure the Army would have been much, much better funded. Also it is likely that FF would have tried to organize a scheme to further the industrialization of the Empire to compete in the new European economy.
Thanks for all the helpd everybody, I have another qustion based on some of my reading.
Franz was interested in building a proper navy, one that could atleast compete with the Italians. How would his being emperor earlier and supporting an even larger effort to build up the AH navy affect the relations between Austria and Britain?
He did want something like this, but he had to choose between the army and navy. AH didn't have enough money for both, so once he broke Hungarian opposition, he could build up the navy a little, but he would have to increase the army by much more to compete with Russia, Romania (which in 1915 would turn against them after the death of their German monarch), Serbia, and Italy.