The theme chosen for this conference will gather research dealing with diplomacy as a shared activity.
Peoples involved in diplomacy are constantly dependent on their interlocutors, their practices, their rhythms and their language.
They feed off the experiences they encounter, seeking to adapt their negotiating style to the world's political, social, psychological and technological evolutions, with the aim of best defending their country's interests.
While the idea is well establish that diplomatic actors in the South were able to draw inspiration from the practices of the North to assert themselves on the international scene at the turning point of the decolonization process, historiography has not only shown that transnational North-South, South-South and South-North transnational influences were already at work before the mid- twentieth century, but also that after the decolonizations, the countries of the North had no choice but to adapt to the realities and experiences of the South in order to have a say in post-colonial international relations.