O processo de construção da ameaça terrorista no discurso de política externa: um estudo comparado Brasil - EUA no pós 11 de setembro de 2001

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the documents of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil (MRE) and the descriptive literature of north american foreign policy , in order to highlight how the terrorism threat was constructed in Brazil and in United States of America, in the period of the years 2001 to 2010.To this end a cutout in Brazilian foreign policy documents about terrorism was made relying on the main speeches, interviews and documents released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil during the studied period. A brief outline of the main actions of the North American foreign policy, after the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001, was also made in order to better understand the building process of the terrorism threat in a comparative study Braszil-USA.