Capitão América (v4): soft power e diplomacia cultural na guerra ao terror (2002-2006)

Abstract

This essay objectify the analysis of Captain America Comic Books, created between 2002-2006 and published by Marvel Comic, utilizing the studies of soft power and cultural diplomacy in order to made a solid approach of the subject inside the International Relations. This Comic Books dialogues with various elements presents on American society in the post-attack period, like nationalism and islamofobia, presenting themes that are also present on foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration, like war on terror and the search for weapons of mass destruction. This constructs have an important role inside American society, but also generate impact on readers around the world, who have quickly access to this material on the XXI century. This way, nowadays the American Comic Books achieved a new aspect of promoters of cultural diplomacy, talking directly to the civil population of other countries and acting as a United States soft power tool. Therefore, this study analyzes the previous mentioned Comic Book in order to demonstrate that the most remarkable aspects of the foreign policy orchestrated by George W. Bush show up on them in an ideologized way, thus ratifying the governmental perspective.