Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Phil-Threats (The Representation of External Threats in the Configuration of Spanish Power in the Philippines (1600-1800))
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2016-02-01 al 2018-01-31
Besides its impact in the field of Philippine history and the history of the Spanish Empire, the results of the project will also enable future scholars and policy makers to better understand the phenomenon of external threats in their historical context and the importance of its communication. Having combined a set of interdisciplinary methodologies and presented a set of approaches to the topic, the project has contributed to understanding the ways in which external and internal politics interact and influence each other. Combining approaches from history, conflict sociology, systems theory, and political studies (above all securitization theory), the project offers an eclectic, theory guided, methodological ‘tool-kid’ for the use of scholars working on external threats. This tool kid was repeatedly presented and discussed in the course of the project and will be published in 2018 as introductory chapter of the volume Representations of External Threats in History (Medieval World to 19th Century), ed. Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde, History of Warfare (Leiden, Boston, Mass., Brill, forthcoming).