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The purpose of this paper is to present the first stage of the United States film industry, called the Golden Age of Hollywood, from its founding until its crisis in the late 1940s. The proposal here is to describe how it was born, who were the fathers, and how it developed into the largest entertainment factory in the world. It is important to realize that the existence of Hollywood and its mode of production greatly affected not only mass communication but global politics in the first half of the last century. The studios located on the west coast of America are an important focus of attention to understand the development of Western culture in the last century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper submits to critique the Brazilian proposal to create a new paradigm for international cooperation from its role in MINUSTAH. We compare some aspects of Brazilian projects in Haiti with U.S. projects. We analyzed documents of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interests and international relations trajectories: the US and the global finances in a context of crises and transition. This paper aims to analyze the elements of continuity and discontinuity in American foreign policy from the nineties. In this regard, it emphasizes the importance of financial issues within the scope of the U.S. government strategies for foreign integration and tries to analyze comparatively the Republicans and Democrats government of the period, ending with some prospective questions concerning the Democratic government of President Obama in the context of international economic crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the dynamics of the relationship between Colombia and United States, with emphasis on the Uribe Government. For this purpose, the internationalization strategy of the Colombian armed conflict and the aspects of the U.S. intervention under Plan Colombia were examined. In the final analysis, this paper suggests that recent political changes in the United States have impacted the guidance for U.S. - Colombia relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the 1991 Gulf War under a strategic view. Three explanations are shown as the major reason for the US victory in this conflict. The conclusion disproves that the aftermath of the revolution in military affairs turned obsolete the less technological armed forces. Traditional aspects of warfare and downgraded hardware have been pretty effective. The paper makes an unorthodox appraisal of the US military capability currently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this paper is to analyze China's quest for energetic security and USA reaction, as well as its consequences for the international politics. The central debate is the Chinese ascension depend of external energetic supply that, consequently, unveiling the growing disputes with the USA in a scenario of international reorganization of forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this paper is to analyze the origins and the evolution of America's religious foundational myths, and their role in the inception of the idea of "exceptionalism", the main determinant of US political identity as expressed in foreign policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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