La Mittel- Osteuropa constitue à la fois un espace géographique et une construction historico-culturelle. Cet espace est formé de plusieurs pays qui ont appartenu à l'empire austro-hongrois et dont la religion catholique majoritaire représente un critère d'unité.La catholicité de cet espace justifie l'intérêt que le Saint-Siège porte à la plupart de ces pays qui deviendront après 1945 des satellites de l'Union soviétique. Les régimes d'inspiration communiste combattront l'autorité spirituelle de Rome, exerceront le contrôle de la vie religieuse et restreindront ainsi les libertés confessionnelles.Face à cette politique antireligieuse et à ce contrôle étroit de la sphère religieuse, le Saint-Siège se devait de réagir et de développer une stratégie de contre-offensive. Dans cette optique, l'Autriche a joué un rôle important dans les orientations de politique étrangère et religieuse du Vatican. Le pays avait encore de nombreux contacts avec les anciens pays de la monarchie des Habsbourg dont la fin était relativement proche. Par ailleurs, Vienne occupe une position avancée en Europe centrale. L'expérience centre-européenne riche de l'Autriche tant sur un plan culturel que linguistique représentait un bien précieux pour la Rome papale, pour qui Vienne pouvait servir de porte d'entrée vers la Mittel- Osteuropa.Le pape Pie XII a parlé d'une mission historique de l'Autriche qui sera considérée comme un phare catholique face à un océan marxiste athée. Malgré cette identité d'intérêts, les relations entre l'Autriche et le Vatican n'ont pas été exemptes de tensions, particulièrement à cause de la controverse sur la remise en vigueur du concordat de 1933. La question du mariage devient un élément de crispation, d'autant plus que la société autrichienne de l'après-guerre était déjà plus sécularisée que celle de l'entre-deux-guerres.L'Autriche saura tirer des avantages spécifiques de la neutralité qui lui a été imposée en échange de sa souveraineté retrouvée. La « neutralité active » va lui permettre de mettre en œuvre une Ostpolitik dans laquelle l'Eglise prendra une place importante qui apparait clairement dans différents exemples : le voyage d'un théologien de l'université de Graz en Union soviétique en 1955, et plus tard les visites du cardinal Franz König aux épiscopats derrière le rideau de fer mais aussi la création de la fondation Pro Oriente en 1964.La guerre froide fut avant tout un conflit idéologique entre deux systèmes très différents tant sur le plan social que politique et économique, avec le capitalisme ou le libéralisme d'une part, et le communisme ou le socialisme d'autre part. En outre, un autre conflit idéologique est aussi apparu entre le catholicisme romain et le communisme athée, deux systèmes de pensée totalement opposés. Le Saint-Siège devint alors un acteur de la guerre froide. Pie XII défendait l'idée que « le communisme est intrinsèquement pervers et l'on ne peut admettre sur aucun terrain de collaboration avec lui ». Pourtant, il existait par la force des choses des relations entre les communistes et l'Eglise catholique dans les pays situés derrière le « rideau de fer ».La Curie romaine n'était pas toute entière hostile au dialogue avec les communistes. Abstraction faite d'un climat d'intransigeance doctrinale, il se trouvait aussi des prélats qui pensaient que toutes les portes du dialogue ne devaient pas rester irrémédiablement fermées. Les années d'après-guerre renvoient aussi à une période de renouvellement de la pensée chrétienne sur les plans philosophique, théologique et social. Les tendances à l'ouverture, annonciatrices d'un « printemps religieux », se heurtaient toutefois à la raideur dogmatique de la Curie romaine sous Pie XII.Les rapports des ambassadeurs autrichiens au Saint-Siège de 1946 à 1958/61 fournissent des informations précieuses sur les grandes thématiques du conflit Est-Ouest, qui touchaient d'une part les relations entre le Vatican et l'Autriche, et d'autre part le Vatican / Mittel- and Osteuropa form a geographic region and also a historical and cultural construct. This area consists of several countries that were part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Their predominant Catholic religion represented a criterion of unity.The Catholic character of this region justifies the interest which the Holy See had in the majority of these countries that became, after 1945, satellite states of the Soviet Union. The regimes shaped by the ideology of communism fought against the spiritual supremacy of Rome, control religious life and thus limit the denominational freedoms.The Holy See reacted to these anticlerical policies and to the rigid control over religious spheres by developing counter-strategies. In this respect, Austria has played an important role in conception of the foreign and church policies of the Vatican. It still had numerous contacts in the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, which had ended not such a long time ago. Vienna had a leading role in Central Europe. Austria's numerous cultural and linguistic experiences in Central Europe represented a treasure to Papal Rome intending to use Vienna as a door opener towards Mittel- Osteuropa .Pope Pius XII spoke of Austria's historic mission, which was considered the flagship Catholic country against the "atheist" and "Marxist ocean". Despite this identity of interests, relations between Austria and the Vatican were not free of tensions, particularly due to the controversy of entry into force of the Concordat of 1933. The question of marriage was another disturbing factor, since the post-war Austrian society was already more secularized than the interwar period society.Austria took specific advantages of the neutrality, which it had acquired in exchange for the regained sovereignty as an obligation. The "active neutrality" allowed an Ostpolitik in which the Catholic Church occupied an important place, which became clear by the examples of the journey of a theologian at the University of Graz in the Soviet Union in 1955, much later by the visits of Cardinal Franz König at the episcopates behind the Iron Curtain, but also by the creation of the Pro-Oriente Foundation in 1964.The Cold War was primarily an ideological system conflict between two very different social, political and economic camps, capitalism or liberalism on the one hand and communism or socialism on the other. In addition, there was the ideological conflict between Roman Catholicism and the atheistic Marxism - two completely opposite doctrines. The Holy See became a actor in the Cold War. Pius XII advocated the view that “Communism is intrinsically wrong, and no one may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever”. Nevertheless, there were inevitably relations between the Communists and the Catholic Church in the countries behind the "Iron Curtain".The Roman Curia was not unanimously against a dialogue with the Communists either. Apart from a doctrinal intransigence there were prelates who had the opinion that not all doors of dialogue should be closed. The post-war years also reflect a renewal period of Christian thought on a philosophical, theological and social level. These opening trends, - signs of a future "religious spring" -, however, encountered the resistance and the dogmatic rigidity of the Papal Curia under Pope Pius XII.The Austrian ambassadors' reports to the Holy See from 1946 to 1958/61 provide valuable information about the major themes of the East-West conflict, that concerned, on the one hand, the relations between the Holy See and Austria, and on the other hand the Vatican and its relationship with Mittelosteuropa. The analysis and presentation of the reports form the basis of this work and examine the view of the Vatican not only on Austria but also on Mittelosteuropa during this politically highly tense period. The arrival of John XXIII as Pope in 1958 opens a new chapter of the Church in the Cold War. The Holy See turned into an a

No fim dos anos 1970, dois choques externos o segundo salto nos preços do petróleo e o reajuste na taxa básica de juros norte-americana marcam o início de tendências econômicas divergentes entre o Leste da Ásia e a América Latina. Para os prósperos tigres, a próxima década seria uma janela para o chamado catching up, culminando com a promoção simbólica de seu prodígio, a Coréia do Sul, ao status de país desenvolvido quando da realização dos Jogos Olímpicos em Seul. Na América Latina, inversamente, os anos 1980 são geralmente apelidados de Década Perdida, inaugurando uma era de regressão econômica e instabilidade política. A Argentina, provavelmente a menos dinâmica dentre as economias que então se industrializavam, é geralmente evocada como um desastre que tipifica a sina regional. A vasta maioria das investigações acerca desta divergência se concentra nas políticas econômicas domésticas e em seus resultados objetivos. Não obstante, tais políticas foram formuladas e aplicadas sob uma combinação de circunstâncias internacionais e políticas que podem variar consideravelmente de país para país ao longo do tempo. O objetivo deste texto é examinar em que medida algumas das particularidades destes dois casos naquilo que concerne ao processo político interno e à evolução da economia internacional moldaram a reação de cada qual ao cenário adverso. / At the end of the 1970s, a couple of external shocks namely, the second leap in petroleum prices and the readjust of American basic interest rate mark the beginning of divergent economic trends for East Asia and Latin America. For the prosperous tigers, the following decade would be a time for catching up, culminating with the symbolic promotion of its prodigy, South Korea, to the rank of a developed country by the time of Seouls Summer Olympics. In Latin America, inversely, the 1980s are generally nicknamed the Lost Decade, inaugurating an era of economic regression and political instability. Argentina, probably the worlds less dynamic industrializing economy at that time, is usually evoked as a disaster that typifies the regional fate. The vast majority of the investigations about this diversion concentrate on domestic economic policies and their objective results. Nonetheless, such policies were formulated and launched under a combination of international and political circumstances that can vary considerably from country to country and along the course of time. The aim of this text is to examine to what extent have some of these two cases particularities in what concerns to the domestic politic process and the evolution of international economy molded each national reaction to the adverse scenario.

Este estudo reconstitui a trajetória e a contribuição intelectual de Comentário (1960-1973), revista financiada pelo American Jewish Committee (AJC) que seguiu o modelo da americana Commentary criada quinze anos antes. A publicação reuniu proeminentes nomes da cultura nacional e internacional da década de 1960. Procuramos pelas origens da revista nos Estados Unidos por meio de sua relação com a empreitada cultural norte-americana durante a Guerra Fria, considerando que tal publicação se dizia aberta ao amplo debate cultural. Através da recuperação de partes deste debate avaliamos o papel do intelectual na cultura. A revista possibilitou uma análise da postura intelectual judaica no período pós-Holocausto, momento em que se ponderou o contexto internacional do alinhamento de Israel ao Ocidente, os processos antissemitas da União Soviética e a ruptura das relações entre Israel e União Soviética em 1953. Comentário favoreceu o estudo da inserção da comunidade judaica no contexto cultural e político brasileiro da década de 1960 e primeiros anos da década de 1970, abrangendo o golpe de 1964 e os anos de maior repressão política as ideias no Brasil. Nossa hipótese é de que a revista Comentário ofereceu, por seu potencial crítico e inovador, um espaço privilegiado para a intelligentsia judaica e não judaica no Brasil pensar as questões políticas e culturais de seu tempo no universo das ações que se desenvolveram no pós-guerra a partir da criação da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), sobretudo através da Organização Educacional, Científica e Cultural (UNESCO) e do conceito de Direitos Humanos. Consideramos o impacto destes valores na cena cultural brasileira, sua relação com a comunidade judaica radicada no Brasil e com o espaço da classe dirigente. A revista atuou como um espaço de divulgação dos estudos sobre antissemitismo, etnicidade, racismo e intolerância gerando linhas de pesquisas que têm hoje a sua atualidade. Através do inventário biográfico de alguns colaboradores da revista e sua produção, resgatamos a história de uma importante geração de intelectuais. / This study reconstructs the history and the intellectual contribution of Comentário (1960-1973), a magazine funded by the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which followed the model of the American Commentary established fifteen years earlier. The publication brought together prominent names in national and international culture of the 1960s. We seek the origins of the magazine in the United States through its relationship with cultural undertaking U.S. during the Cold War, considering that such a publication called itself \"open to broad cultural debate.\" Through the recovery of parts of this debate we evaluate the role of intellectual culture. The magazine has enabled an analysis of Jewish intellectual position in the post-Holocaust, when it weighed the international context of the alignment of Israel to the West, the processes of anti-Semitic Soviet Union and the rupture of relations between Israel and the Soviet Union in 1953. Comentário favored the study of the insertion of the Jewish community in the Brazilian political and cultural context of the 1960\'s and early 1970\'s, covering the 1964 coup and the years of greatest political repression in Brazil ideas. Our hypothesis is that the magazine Comentário offered by its critical and innovative potential, a privileged space for the Jewish and non Jewish intelligentsia in Brazil think the political and cultural issues of his time in all the actions that have developed in the postwar Since the creation of the United Nations (UN), especially through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the concept of Human Rights. We consider the impact of these values in the Brazilian cultural scene, its relationship with the Jewish community living in Brazil and the space of the ruling class. The magazine served as a forum for dissemination of studies on anti-Semitism, ethnicity, racism and intolerance causing lines of research that has its relevance today. Through the biographical inventory of some employees of the magazine and its production, we rescued the story of an important generation of intellectuals.

Em 1.º de junho de 1953, a administração do presidente norte-americano Dwight D. Eisenhower fundou a United States Information Agency (USIA), reunindo sob a coordenação da nova agência os programas de informação dos Estados Unidos da América (EUA) no exterior. O intuito era o de aproximar as audiências internacionais dos valores do sistema democrático e de livre empresa encenado pelo país, granjeando governos às posições norte-americanas na Guerra Fria. A atuação da agência se deu no âmbito das disputas entre os governos dos Estados Unidos e da União das Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas (URSS) em programas de propaganda cultural naquilo que a historiografia tem chamado de Guerra Fria Cultural (Cultural Cold War). Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo investigar a atuação da USIA no Brasil, entre os anos de 1953, data de fundação da agência, e 1964, quando as questões de que se ocupava foram reorientadas em função, no plano internacional, da Guerra no Vietnam e, no Brasil, do golpe civil-militar. Para tanto, analisamos o material da agência matérias, artigos, notícias, notas e fotografias veiculado nos jornais cariocas Correio da Manhã e Tribuna da Imprensa, duas das mais importantes publicações da mídia impressa brasileira do período. Verificamos que a agência passou, paulatinamente, a empregar atividades secretas, além das atividades não secretas, driblando as resistências que a opinião pública brasileira mostrava à presença oficial norte-americana no debate de questões políticas nacionais. Embora as estratégias utilizadas pela USIA fossem realizadas em nome das liberdades democráticas, a agência não vacilou em lançar mão de operações secretas para a consecução de seus objetivos políticos na Guerra Fria. / On June, 1st, 1953, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhowers administration founded the United States Information Agency (USIA) for gathering U.S. information programs overseas under its umbrella. The aim of the new agency was to broadcast democratic system and free enterprise values portrayed by the country to international audiences in order to garner nations to U.S. positions during the Cold War. The Agency proceedings took place in the context of disputes between the heads of government of the United States of America (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in programs of cultural propaganda called the Cultural Cold War by historiography. The present study aimed at investigating USIAs performance in Brazil between the years 1953, founding date of the Agency, and 1964, when the Agencys previous issues were redesigned on account of Vietnam War, at an international level, and of the civil-military coup, in Brazil. Therefore, we analyzed the Agency material newspaper reports, articles, news, notes and photos released in Correio da Manhã and Tribuna da Imprensa newspapers, two of the most important publications of the Brazilian Press for the period edited in Rio de Janeiro. We found that the Agency has, gradually, carried out covert activities, besides the overt ones, dodging Brazilian public opinion resistance against official U.S. presence in the debate on national political issues. Although the strategies used by the USIA were held in the name of democratic freedoms, the Agency did not hesitate about resorting covert operations to achieve its political objectives in the Cold War.

Les États-Unis ont traditionnellement été accusés de ne pas avoir de réelle politique africaine. Une période semble échapper à cette affirmation car elle a été particulièrement riche dans ce domaine. Il s’agit des années 1975 à 1995 et particulièrement de la zone de l’Afrique australe. Cette politique étrangère a néanmoins été fluctuante au gré des présidences et influencée tant par la guerre froide et par des impératifs de politique nationale.Après l’effondrement de l’empire portugais, les États-Unis sont pris au dépourvu dans cette région stratégique à divers titres. Avec la fin de la guerre du Viêt Nam, Cuba et l’URSS lancent une politique expansionniste en Afrique. Ces deux paramètres vont créer les conditions d’un regain d’intérêt pour cette région et donner à l’Afrique du sud une rôle central au moment où les opinions publiques s’invitent dans la lutte contre l’apartheid.Les caractéristiques et composantes de cette politique, le processus de décision, ses acteurs multiples et variés constituent un sujet d’étude particulièrement riche. Quelle est la réelle part d’approche régionale de celle plus globaliste ? Quelles spécificités entre administrations démocrates et républicaines ?Au niveau militaire, il y a eu une certaine indulgence vis-à-vis du programme nucléaire et biologique sud-africain ainsi que le maintien de liens très forts entre les militaires des deux pays. L’utilisation des covert-actions de la CIA, l’appui du Zaïre, l’implication de l’OTAN et la résistance des états de la ligne de front constituent autant d’aspects de cette histoire très riche. / The United States has been traditionally accused of having no real African policy. A period seems to avoid this statement because it was particularly rich in this domain. It is the period covering the years 1975 to 1995 and particularly the Southern Africa area. This foreign policy has however been fluctuating according to presidencies and influenced so much by the cold war and by the imperatives of national politics.After the collapse of the Portuguese empire, the United States have been taken by surprise in this strategic region in various areas. With the end of the Vietnam war, Cuba and the USSR launched an expansionist policy in Africa. These two parameters will create the conditions for a resurgence of interest of this region and give South Africa a key role when public opinions started to be more engaged against apartheid.The features and components of this policy, the decision-making process with multiple and varied actors are a particularly rich subject of study. What is the real part of the regional approach to a more holistic one? What are the specificities of Democratic and Republican administrations?At the military level, there has been some leniency towards the South African nuclear and biological program and the maintenance of the strong linkage between the military of both countries. The use of the CIA's covert operations, Mobutu’s Zaire support, NATO's involvement and the resistance of the frontline states are all aspects of this rich history.

La Seconde Guerre mondiale a profondément perturbé les sociétés européennes. À son issue, le champ est laissé libre à des dynamiques de recomposition passant par des rapprochements ou, au contraire, par des clivages puissants. Les populations françaises et allemandes ont été affectées au premier chef par ces évolutions. Or, comme les organisations syndicales de travailleurs constituent les principales organisations de masses, elles offrent un angle d’approche particulièrement intéressant pour appréhender le dialogue développé dans un contexte marqué par la partition de l’Allemagne, par la Guerre Froide, et par la construction européenne dont l’interpénétration des économies est un des principaux aspects. Cette thèse considère, à la croisée de la question de la réconciliation et de celle d’une coopération à venir, la mise en place des échanges syndicaux entre la France et les deux Allemagnes, examine la pratique des échanges et éclaire les phénomènes de convergence et de crispation. / The Second World War profoundly disrupted European societies. When the war came to an end, a dynamic of recomposition, based either on reconciliation or on sharp divisions, took hold of the continent. The French and German populations were the first to bear the brunt of these evolutions. Because of their numerous adherents, trade unions constituted the most important mass organizations of their time, and consequently offer a particularly interesting perspective on the Franco-German dialogue, especially against the backdrop of the division of Germany into two states, the Cold War, and the construction of Europe, of which economic interpenetration was a main aspect. This thesis considers, at the crossroads of a process of reconciliation and of future cooperation, the establishment and structuring of trade unions exchanges between France and Germany, examines exchange practices, and highlights adjoining convergence and tension phenomena.

Cette étude analyse le contexte historique dans lequel l’étude de l’histoire du Brésil a émergé dans les universités américaines entre 1958 et 1985. L’expansion de la discipline reflétait alors les préoccupations nées de la Guerre froide aux États-Unis. Dans ces circonstances, l’appui institutionnel, les fonds fédéraux et privés ont joué un rôle important dans la recherche des Brazilianists, favorisant son développement académique comme spécialisation à part entière. Le terme de Brazilianist désigne seulement aux États-Unis un spécialiste de l’histoire Brésilienne alors qu’au Brésil, il est connoté politiquement. S’il est vrai qu’une partie de la recherche des Brazilianists était policy-oriented et qu’ils bénéficiaient de davantage de soutien institutionnel ou d’opportunités de recherche que leurs homologues Brésiliens, notamment pendant les anos de chumbo, quand ces derniers subirent le joug de la dictature militaire, on ne peut se limiter à une vision réductrice de leurs travaux. L’étude des parcours individuels fait apparaître une histoire bien plus nuancée, permettant d’évaluer leurs motivations et les échanges qu’ils ont pu avoir avec les intellectuels brésiliens et le degré de réception de leurs travaux au Brésil ; nous pouvons ainsi dépasser les polémiques en soulignant l’importance des liens tissés entre eux et le monde savant brésilien, leur apport scientifique, leur rôle dans l’institutionnalisation de la discipline aux États-Unis et la professionnalisation de l’histoire au Brésil. / This study examines the historical context in which the study of Brazilian history emerged in the American Universities during 1958–1985. Expansion of this discipline in the United States mirrored domestic and political concerns stemming from the Cold War; as such, institutional support, both federal and private funding played a significant role in Brazilianist research and facilitated subsequent specialization and scholarly development. In the U.S., the term “Brazilianist” merely designates a scholar of Brazilian history, whereas in Brazil the term is often politically charged, with some U.S. scholars suspected of furthering an imperialist agenda of some sort. While it is true that some Brazilianist research was policy-oriented, and that these scholars had greater institutional support and further research opportunities than their Brazilian counterparts (particularly during the anos de chumbo, when the latter were subjected to repression and censorship by the military dictatorship), this stance tends to undermine their scientific production. A case-by-case study of their intellectual trajectories portrays however a much more complex account, allowing for a better analysis of their motivations and their intellectual exchanges with Brazilian intellectuals, as well as a better understanding of Brazilian reception of their academic production. This study seeks to move beyond polemics by highlighting the importance of Brazilianist academic ties with the Brazilian intellectual world, the reach of their academic production, and the role played by these in the institutionalization of the field in the United States as well as the professionalization of history in Brazil.

Notre travail de recherche se propose d'étudier les ressorts qui sous-tendent les relations asymétriques entre les Etats-Unis et la Fédération de Russie depuis la fin de la guerre froide et la disparition de l’Union soviétique. Afin de comprendre la nouvelle relation bilatérale au cours du quart de siècle écoulé, il nous faut analyser l’héritage que laissent plusieurs années de rivalité idéologique entre les deux Etats-continents. Il nous faut comprendre la décision soviétique de renoncer à cette confrontation idéologique et le rôle qu’ont pu jouer les Etats-Unis dans cette décision. Depuis leur accession au rôle d'unique hyperpuissance, les Etats-Unis, tout en cherchant à développer leur conception de la « démocratie libérale », s’efforcent de faire obstacle à l'émergence de tout peer competitor sur la scène internationale et envisagent pour la Russie un rôle de junior partner régional en Eurasie. Cependant, cette dernière a développé, à travers le temps, un hubris de ''grande puissance'', une forme propre de « démocratie dirigée » et un messianisme particulier qui l'empêchent d’accepter le rôle prédéfini pour elle par les Etats-Unis car il ne ferait qu’exposer l’asymétrie de la relation bilatérale. Ainsi, il nous semble indispensable de nous demander quelles places tiennent les réalités géopolitiques et les composantes idéologiques et messianiques dans cette nouvelle relation asymétrique et à quelle(s) fin(s). / Our research aims at studying the asymmetrical relations between the United States and the Russian Federation since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In order to understand how the new bilateral relation has evolved throughout the past twenty-five years, our research analyses the heritage left by many years of ideological rivalry between these two continent-states. Our research also aims at finding out the reasons why the Soviet Union eventually decided to give up the ideological confrontation and what role the United States played in that decision. The United States has become the only remaining hyperpower trying to prevent any other peer competitor on the international scene from emerging and leaving Russia with only a regional power in Eurasia while developing and expanding its own concept of Liberal Democracy. However, throughout the centuries , Russia itself has developed its own hubris as a great power and as a managed democracy as well as some messianism that would not accept any role predefined by the United States. Thus, our research tries to consider the geopolitical as well as ideological components within the new asymmetrical relation between the two countries and to what end(s).

La thèse traite de l'émigration organisée italienne vers la Belgique pendant la première décennie du deuxième après-guerre (1946-1956) et, notamment, des "aspects politiques" du recrutement des travailleurs et du "contrôle politique" de leurs activités dans le pays de destination. Malgré l’origine principalement économique de ce phénomène migratoire, on s’est proposé de centrer le travail de recherche sur les questions d’ordre politique qui caractérisèrent l’administration de ce flux migratoire, liées soit aux deux contextes nationaux de départ et arrivée, soit à la conjoncture internationale de la Guerre froide. Les buts de la recherche ont donc été la reconsidération de l’entrecroisement de facteurs économiques et politiques dans la gestion de cet exode de travail, l’analyse des stratégies et des divergents intérêts politiques de l’Italie et de la Belgique, ainsi que l’examen de l’incidence concrète de ces questions politiques sur la vie des migrants. L’étude a été structurée en deux parties. Dans la première partie, on a analysé le système de recrutement des travailleurs en Italie et les opérations de sélection des candidats à l’émigration mises en œuvre par la Mission belge et par les autres fonctionnaires belges installés auprès du Centre d’émigration à Milan. Dans la deuxième partie, d’un côté on a analysé l’encadrement politique des migrants italiens en Belgique – au niveau de l’assistance et des services sociaux, du syndicalisme et de la presse destinée à la communauté italienne – et de l’autre côté, face à l’interdiction aux étrangers de faire de la politique, on a pris en considération la surveillance policière et les expulsions des Italiens du territoire belge. / The thesis deals with the post-war Italian assisted migration to Belgium (1946-1956) and it is particularly focused on the "political aspects" of the selection of migrant workers and on the "political control" of their activities in the receiving country. Despite the economic origins of this migration flow, my intention was in fact to study all the political issues concerning the management of the phenomenon, with reference both to the two national contexts of departure and arrival, and to international political circumstances, marked by the Cold War. The principal aims of my research were, therefore, to reconsider the interconnection between economic and political factors; to delve into the divergent strategies and political interests of the two countries involved in organising such working exodus; and to examine the real implications of political questions on migrants’ lives. The dissertation is composed of two main parts. In the first part, I have examined the recruitment system implemented in Italy, as well as the selection of candidates carried out by the Belgian Commission and by other Belgian officials at the Migration Centre in Milan. In the second part, instead, I have studied the political control over Italian migrants with respect to associations, social care and services, trade unions and newspapers on the one hand, and on the other hand, I have taken into account police surveillance and expulsion measures related to the Belgian ban on foreigners getting into politics. / La tesi tratta dell'emigrazione assistita italiana verso il Belgio nel primo decennio del secondo dopoguerra (1946-1956) e, in particolare, degli "aspetti politici" del reclutamento dei lavoratori migranti e del "controllo politico" delle loro attività nel Paese di destinazione. Nonostante la matrice essenzialmente economica dell’esodo lavorativo in esame, mi sono proposta di incentrare lo studio sulle questioni di natura politica che caratterizzarono l’amministrazione del flusso migratorio, legate tanto ai due contesti nazionali di partenza e di arrivo, quanto al contesto internazionale della Guerra fredda. La ricerca intendeva insomma riconsiderare l’intreccio tra fattori politici ed economici nell’organizzazione dell’emigrazione organizzata postbellica verso il Belgio, esaminare le strategie e gli interessi politici dei due Paesi coinvolti, nonché indagare il concreto impatto di tali questioni politiche sulle vite dei migranti. La trattazione si articola quindi in due parti. Nella prima parte ho analizzato il sistema di reclutamento dei lavoratori sul territorio italiano, oltre che le operazioni di selezione dei candidati all’emigrazione effettuate dalla Commissione belga e dai vari funzionari belgi presso il Centro di emigrazione di Milano. Nella seconda parte invece sono state prese in esame, da un lato, le strategie di "contenimento politico" della collettività italiana nel Royaume – nell’ambito dell’assistenza, dell’associazionismo, del sindacalismo e della stampa – dall’altro lato, la sorveglianza da parte della polizia belga e le espulsioni di immigrati italiani per motivi di ordine politico.

This study aims to examine how some people in the United States of America during a period of ten years shortly after World War II used motion pictures to spread their political beliefs to the general public. The study also assesses how movies can be used as a teaching method about the Cold War in the subject of history in Swedish upper secondary schools. The main object for the analysis is two movies All the King’s Men (1949) and Rio Bravo (1959), and how they’re used to spread ideological messages to the masses. This study will also try to explain how two political beliefs, communism and McCarthyism rose to such prominent positions in Hollywood. The tools for the analysis of the movies are based on three methods by Jeff Smith about analyzing movies. Furthermore, I’ve presented previous research about films with political messages made during the same period and also what has been said about showing films for educational purposes in the subject of history. The results from this study shows that you can interpret that some films made in Hollywood during the early stages of the Cold War had political messages in them, if you knew what to look for. The results also show that films can and should be used for educational purposes about the Cold War as long as it’s done properly, so that the students can broaden their historical knowledge.