MESSIANISMO E CULTURA DE BEM-ESTAR SOCIAL NAS NAÇÕES UNIDAS: poder, violência e políticas públicas na construção da identidade onusiana

• Main Author: Elisabete Cristina Cruvello da Silveira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Maranhão 2014-01-01
• Series: Revista de Políticas Públicas
• Subjects: messianism; culture of social welfare; united nations; public policies
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=321133267007

The article aims to discuss the affinities and ambiguities between messianism and welfare culture within the United Nations, around the following question: how power, violence and public policies conform specifically in their space, manifesting itself in its identity? The discussion is systematized in two articulated axes: Brazilian flagship identity and the international conjuncture of the past and present. Points out International Relations Analysts, that contributed to the historical interpretation, as Bauman, Moniz Bandeira, Fonseca Júnior, Garcia, Bertrand and Senarclens. It verifies that the United Nations cover a dialectic of identities, depending on the lens adopted by an analyst for its interpretation and the type of service it provides to Member States. It concludes that, power, violence and public policies configure the bulge of the United Nations as an institution dedicated to the dissemination of the Messianic ideals and culture of social welfare.