NEW OLD ENEMY: COUNTERTERRORISM IN BRAZIL AND THE RETURN OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY DOCTRINE DISCOURSE
Terrorism;DoutrinadeSegurançaNacional;Internalenemy;Externalenemy.
The study at hand aims to answer the question: "Is it possible to demonstrate the influence (or return) of the Doutrina de Segurança Nacional in the discursive/conceptual shift from external enemy to internal enemy in the Brazilian legislative proposals related to terrorism?" Initially, within a conceptual del imitation, what is understood by “enmity”, “enemy”, “fear”, “terror”, “terrorism”, and “terrorist” is defined. Given this clarification, the second part constructs, with the terrorist as anenemy, the history of the Doutrina de Segurança Nacional and its context in the Cold War, emphasizing the issue of the internal enemy. Next, in the third part, arguments are made considering the transition in Brazil from the external enemy (vulgarized in the image of the international Muslim terrorist, which marked the advent of the Lei n. 13.260/2016) to the internal enemy (the figure of the subversive leftist terrorist). At the end of the third part, the influence of the Doutrina de Segurança Nacional on the legislatives proposals researched on the website of the Câmara dos Deputados (from the words" Lei 13.260" and "Comunismo") is analyzed. The paper concludes that the anti-communism present in such instruments, combined with the defense of the West against an internal enemy (but driven by an international conspiracy) that terrorizes the population and degenerates society, therefore shows itself as an influence of the National Security Doctrine on Brazilian legislation. It is, in this sense, a minority trend, however, no less significant, given that it demonstrates that the path adopted in such ways to combat terrorism is marked by nostalgia for the ideology of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship.