GEOPOLITICAL LENS : THE TURKISH INVASIONS OF EUROPE AND THE PORTUGUESE EXPANSION TO ASIA從地緣政治看土耳其入侵歐洲和葡萄牙在亞洲的擴張
The article proposes a geopolitical reading of Portuguese expansion into Asia in the fifteenth–sixteenth centuries, arguing that it must be understood in simultaneity with Ottoman military pressure on Christian Europe. Rather than treating separately the Portuguese maritime advance in the Indian Oce...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2013
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40042/2879 |
| Summary: | The article proposes a geopolitical reading of Portuguese expansion into Asia in the fifteenth–sixteenth centuries, arguing that it must be understood in simultaneity with Ottoman military pressure on Christian Europe. Rather than treating separately the Portuguese maritime advance in the Indian Ocean and the "Turkish invasions" in central and Mediterranean Europe, the author demonstrates, through a critical review of primary and secondary sources, that the dynastic and confessional strategies of the House of Avis (Portuguese) and the House of Habsburg (Germanic/imperial) formed an articulated whole in the face of a common threat.
The analysis mobilizes two theoretical components of the Christian context against Islam: a broad strategy of inter-imperial rivalry (Rome–Constantinople), aggravated by earlier displacements of power following the fall of competing dynasties (such as the Abbasids under Mongol dominion), and the Iberian role within that architecture. As historical and chronological evidence, the author highlights the coincidence between the conquests of Selim I and Suleiman the Magnificent and the reigns of Maximilian I and Charles V, proposing that the Ottoman progression on the Danube and in the Mediterranean directly pressured European projects, while Portuguese expansion redefined routes and commercial controls that connected the Near East to Southeast Asia. It is thus concluded that the articulation between dynastic alliances, military urgencies, and reorderings of maritime commerce integrates the Portuguese expansion into a broader conjuncture of "geopolitical war" between Christendom and the Ottoman Empire. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |