Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo Silva Alves.pdf: 8485164 bytes, checksum: 35fbb9901da8a860765e149fda98a6ce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Our research aims to analyze one of the most important magazines of the twentieth century: Time Magazine. The investigations focus on the discourse of reports that emphasized the worry and discomfort of the magazine with the communist threat that hung over Brazil between the years 1958 and 1961, a moment that covers the path of the rise and output power of former President Quadros. We argue that the ideology of the magazine, known worldwide as the "American Century" - created by its owner Henry Luce - was being confronted in Latin America, particularly in Brazil, by the advance of communism and anti-American demonstrations promoted that context. Thus, Time Magazine, through their reporting on Brazil during the administration of Quadros, presented an analytical discourse about our culture, politics and economy as "risky" to U.S. interests. Such risks were related to Time Magazine troubled administration Quadros, according TIME: an eccentric. The title of this thesis "Wherefore Art Thou, Jânio?" (Why thou Jânio?), Inspired by one of his reports, research illustrates that the TIME Magazine 'organized around the personality of Quadros. Several terms, mostly pejorative, were being attributed to each offense he performed against the presence and U.S. intervention in Latin America / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar uma das mais importantes revistas do século XX: a Time Magazine. As investigações estão concentradas no discurso das reportagens que realçavam a preocupação da revista com a ameaça comunista que pairava sobre o Brasil entre os anos de 1958 e 1961, período que abrange a ascensão e a saída do poder do ex-presidente Jânio Quadros. Defendemos que o ideário da revista, mundialmente conhecido como Século Americano - criado pelo seu proprietário Henry Luce - estava sendo confrontado na América Latina, em particular no Brasil, pelo avanço do comunismo e das manifestações antiamericanas promovidas naquele contexto. Desse modo, a Time Magazine, por meio de suas reportagens sobre o Brasil durante a gestão de Jânio Quadros, apresentava um discurso analítico a respeito de nossa cultura, política e economia como arriscados aos interesses norte-americanos. Esses riscos foram relacionados pela revista Time à conturbada administração de Jânio Quadros, segundo a revista: um excêntrico. O título desta tese Wherefore Art Thou, Jânio?, (Por que tu, Jânio?), inspirado em uma de suas reportagens, ilustra a investigação que a revista Time promoveu em torno da personalidade de Jânio Quadros. Inúmeros adjetivos, em sua maioria pejorativos, foram sendo-lhe atribuídos a cada ofensiva que ele realizava contra a presença e a intervenção norteamericana na America Latina

This dissertation examines the impact and influence of Colonel Edward House. House occupied a unique position in American history. The Texan wielded great power for most of Woodrow Wilson's presidency. House left an enduring impact on U. S. foreign policy while he served as the president's closest advisor. The project covers House's early life because it offers valuable clues as to how the colonel constructed his latter role as a presidential advisor and international figure. House believed in the idea of great men shaping history and bending events to their will. He also thought that the political arena provided the best arena to achieve greatness. Moreover, House knew due to his poor public persona and persistent illnesses had to construct a distinctive position for himself. House found that his path to greatness rested in exerting power behind the scenes. During his early years in politics he served as confidential advisor to a series of Texas governors, a position House later fillled in the Wilson administration. House found his chance to move onto the national scene through the presidential candidacy of Woodrow Wilson. He provided some key services for Wilson during the course of the 1912 campaign and quickly gained the confidence of the candidate. After Wilson's election House acted as a de facto chief of staff as he helped fill administration jobs. When the president-elect assumed office on March 4, 1913 House offered some advice on domestic policy but his ambition soon turned towards diplomacy. House believed that global politics provided the best way to achieve prominence. Though driven by ambition and ego House helped to usher in an era of American internatiionalism. His role as peace envoy, during American neutrality, marked the first time in the modern era that the U. S. involved itself in a European war. House continued his internationalist stance when America entered the war when he helped draft the Fourteen Points and an early covenant of the Fourteen Points. House was an important figure in bringing America out of its era of isolationism onto the world stage.

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservative Washington, D.C. foreign policy think tank, comprised of seasoned foreign policy stalwarts who had served multiple presidential administrations as well as outside-the-beltway defense contractors, that was founded in 1997 by William Kristol, editor of the conservative political magazine The Weekly Standard, and Robert Kagan, a foreign policy analyst and political commentator currently at the Brookings Institution. The PNAC would shut down its operations in 2006. Using The Weekly Standard as its mouthpiece, the PNAC helped foment support for the removal of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein beginning in 1998, citing Iraq’s noncooperation with UN weapons inspections. The PNAC became further emboldened in its urgency and rhetoric to quell the geopolitical risk posed by Hussein after the 9/11 terror attacks. The only justifiable response the George W. Bush Administration could play in thwarting Hussein, the PNAC argued, involved a military action. Keywords: The Project for the New American Century; Iraq War; Saddam Hussein; The Weekly Standard; The Vulcans; weapons of mass destruction