On Diplo’s blog, in Diplo classrooms, and at Diplo events, dialogues stretch over a series of entries, comments, and exchanges and may even linger. DiploDialogue summarises. DiploDialogue aims to bring focus by deleting what, in hindsight, is less relevant. In the first DiploDialogue, Dr Katharina Höne and Aldo Matteucci discussed the usefulness of analogies and metaphors for understanding international relations and diplomacy.