Irã e política externa no Governo Lula

Abstract

The phenomenon of globalization, which intensely interconnects regions and cultures, has awakened a discussion of the current world order. The technological revolution of mass media in the 20th century has created new forms of action and interaction within social life . Consequently, it has intensified the relevance of Communication’s role in understanding the local and international conditions. An individual’s decoding of the world has come to depend largely on the symbolic content present in mass media. Such transformations focus also on societies’ interactions with global affairs. Globalization has changed the arrangement of influential groups in the international arena, and has now diluted some of that power that was once concentrated on a few. The role of Journalism in contributing to the formation of the international imaginary has made the discussion of media and international relations more urgent because it affects society’s perception of diplomatic processes important to the maintenance of global stability. One diplomatic initiative during the second term of the Lula administration was immersed in this movement in 2010. Then, Brazil mediated an agreement, alongside Turkey, that intended to lessen censorship to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear program. A history of the foreign policy strategy in the Lula administration, the regime of non-proliferation, bilateral relations between Brazil and Iran, and historical and political aspects of contemporary Iran were analyzed to fundament the present work. The role of media has been verified through the analysis of the ideological position of symbolic forces, predicated on the critical concept of Ideology (THOMPSON, 2007), in seven editorials that address the Declaration of Tehran agreement that were published in one of the biggest Brazilian dailies, the Folha de S. Paulo.