Contrary to popular wisdom, diplomacy can be a site of much weirdness. Although weirdness is often just the result of a faux pas, at other times it is produced performatively, with the objective of disrupting existing hierarchies, or initiating a broader recasting of order and international politics. The aim of this project is to scrutinize such instances when diplomacy goes awry and deviates from established practices and ask, among others: What effects strange and deviant practices have? Where does strangeness originate, in the actors, or in the environment? Is there a positive transformative potential in such practices?